“…It was not our goal to discuss the soil transformations in the catena. An in-depth discussion about soil development in systems similar to the study area could be found elsewhere (Cunha et al, 1999;Zaparoli and Gasparetto, 2010;Cunha et al, 2016;Barreiros et al, 2018). Overall, Lixisols was highlighted as the most erodible soil along the catena (Cunha et al, 1999(Cunha et al, , 2016Merten et al, 2016).…”