Amazonia dark earth is chock full of nutrients and stable organic matter that can boost plant growth—which is key to building back forests. it now may help reforest the same area where it was created.
“Here we show that the use of ADEs can enhance the growth of pasture and trees due to their high levels of nutrients, as well as to the presence of beneficial bacteria and archaea in the soil microbial community,” co-author Luís Felipe Zagatto, a graduate student at the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture at São Paulo University in Brazil
. “This means that knowledge of the ‘ingredients’ that make ADEs so very fertile could be applied to help speed up ecological restoration projects.” The team’s primary aim was to study how ADEs, or ultimately
soils with a microbiome that has been artificially composed to imitate them, could boost reforestation. To do this, they conducted controlled experiments in a lab to mimic the ecological succession that happens in the soil when pasture in deforested areas is actively restored to its forest state. headtopics.com
They sampled ADE from the Caldeirão Experimental Research Station in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
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