Soils of the private reserve of natural patrimony 'Serra do Teimoso', Jussari, Bahia, Brazil. In: Agrotrópica v. 24 p. 121-126, 2012.

Abstract

Knowledge of the components and the ecological relationships of the primary ecosystems is a fundamental demand for coexistence and rational utilization of communities. Soil is a basic system for understanding of environments and the identification of its classes is an important step to know the precursor elements on its formation, edaphologic characteristics, potentialities and limitations to support elements of the flora and fauna (micro, meso and macro), water dynamics, climatic and other environmental relationships. This work identified four classes of soil in a toposequence of the Private Reserve of Natural Patrimony ‘Serra do Teimoso’, in the Atlantic Rain Forest of Southern Bahia, Brazil. To classify the soils were used preliminary photo interpretations, descriptions of soil profiles, soil physical and chemical analyses, and soil morphological and physicochemistry characterizations. Along the toposequence studied two oxisols and two inceptisols were classified.