Crescimento e eficiência do uso de água e nutrientes em eucalipto fertirrigado

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Lourenço, Helton Maycon
• Orientador(a): Neves, Júlio César Lima
• Banca de defesa: Leite, Fernando Palha , Silva, Ivo Ribeiro da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Solos e Nutrição de Plantas
• Departamento: Fertilidade do solo e nutrição de plantas; Gênese, Morfologia e Classificação, Mineralogia, Química,
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Eucalipto; Irrigação; Fertirrigação; Eficiência de uso
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Eucalypt; Irrigation; Fertirrigation; Use efficiency
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::CIENCIA DO SOLO
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/5424

Eucalypt is the main forest essence planted in Brazil (approximately 3.5 million ha) and represents roughly 70 % of the total forestry planting. In tropical environments, the sustainability of the forest production is primarily dictated by water and nutrient fluxes in the soil, provided temperature and solar radiation are not limiting. Nutrient limitation has often been corrected through adequate nutritional management, thus being of secondary importance for most commercial Eucalypt plantations. Water has otherwise been considered as the most limiting resource to eucalypt productivity in the tropics. The evaluation and the comprehension of how water and nutrients regulate forestry productivity are key to predict the productive potential of the forest stand and to subsidize the utilization of management practices more adequately to forestry growth. Being said this, the main objectives of the present work were to evaluated the forest growth, the biomass and nutrient partitioning, the intensive properties of leaves and fine roots and the use efficiency of water and nutrients as a function of irrigation (water) and fertirrigation (water + nutrients) treatments. The experiment was set in October 2001 in the Rio Doce River Valley, Central-Western region of Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The experiment was compounded by four clonal genetic material of eucalypt: 57 and 2719 - Rio Claro and Eucalyptus grandis hybrids; 129 - Eucalyptus grandis hybrids and 1215 - Eucalyptus urophylla x Eucalyptus grandis, "Urograndis", and three different treatments of water and nutrients (irrigation, fertirrigation and control). All trees in the experimental plot had their diameter at breast height (dbh) and total height (Ht) monitored by forest inventory, which were made every three months starting when the trees were 13 months old. With this data it was possible to fit regression equations for each eucalypt genetic material describing the behavior of dbh, Ht, basal area (B) and trunk volume (Vt) as a function of the stand age. Five trees per experimental plot representing the range in tree sizes were felled at ground level and separated into foliage, branches, stemwood and bark components. Total fresh weights were determined in the field and all tissues were subsampled for moisture, nutrient contents and dry weight determination. All trunks had their volume determined by rigorous scaling. Additional subsamples of fresh foliage were collected from each sampled tree and specific leaf area (SLA) was determined. Leaf area index (LAI) was determined using the data from SLA and total foliage biomass of each sampled tree. Fine roots (< 2 mm) were collected from each sampled tree, then, washed, scanned and dried until constant weight being achieved. Additionally, root specific area and root area index were also obtained from the plant material. The fertirrigation had positive effects on trunk growth, volume and biomass. Conversely, irrigation had no affect on stand growth. Fertirrigation also increased the nutrients content in the above ground biomass with different magnitude with regards to the genetic material besides providing a greater leaf area index, root specific area and root area index, but it had little influence on leaf specific area, which was more influenced by the productive class where it had its value reduced when the degree of dominance of the tree went up. On average, fertirrigation increased the nutrients use efficiency for production of total above ground biomass, trunk biomass, foliage biomass and fine roots biomass, but it decreased water use efficiency for production of trunk biomass. Thus, it is concluded that water and nutrient availability change the behavior of the stand growth, nutrient and biomass partitioning as well as the studied resources use efficiency and intensive properties of the resource acquisition (leaves and fine roots), with different magnitude according with the genetic material.