COMPARATIVE STUDY OF A YELLOW RED LATOSOL IN A DEGRADED AREA IN THE CITY OF PORTO VELHO - RO
Soil environmental degradation, Pedology, Geomorphology, Topography.
This work has as main focus to evaluate the environmental degradation of the soil due to the loss of physical quality, through the evaluation of some physical indicators of the soil correlated by means of descriptive statistics and modeling of the surface by interpolation of the analyzed data. This was done by comparing two different areas surveyed. The first area is an old pasture, which no longer has the characteristic botanical composition of pasture, that is, without the presence of grass and forage legumes. The second area is represented by a capoeira area, resulting from the partial recovery of the site, the area is composed of shrub and coconut trees. This assessment was divided into four stages: 1) definition of the topography of the study area; 2) morphological description of the soil and the granulometric and chemical characterization of the soil in the areas; 3) the evaluation of the physical parameters of the analyzed soil; 4) the assessment and mapping of soil degradation. This demonstrates the environmental diagnosis of degraded areas.