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Table 1 Soil physical proprieties at the 0–10 cm layer in an Oxisol under native vegetation of Cerrado (Native) or cropped with soybean/corn under no-tillage (NT) or conventional tillage (CT) systems

From: Shifts in taxonomic and functional microbial diversity with agriculture: How fragile is the Brazilian Cerrado?

Physical

Treatment

Total porosity

Microporosity

Macroporosity

Density

 

m 3 /m 3

m 3 /m 3

m 3 /m 3

Mg/m 3

NT

0.59 A

0.41 A

0.17 B

0.91 B

CT

0.59 A

0.44 A

0.15 B

0.95 A

Native

0.60 A

0.39 B

0.21 A

0.91 B

p

0.2022

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

  1. Values in columns sharing the same letter do not differ significantly (p < 0.05) as determined by the Tukey’s test