“…Average soil chemical analyses in the SPS and OP were, respectively, as follows: pH (water), 4.7 and 4.7; phosphorus (Mehlich-1), 3.7 and 1.9 mg/dm 3 ; potassium, 50.6 and 49.5 mg/dm 3 ; calcium, 0.9 and 0.7 cmolc/dm 3 ; magnesium, 0.4 and 0.3 cmolc/dm 3 ; aluminium, 0.9 and 0.7 cmolc/dm 3 ; H + Al, 6.0 and 5.4 cmolc/dm 3 ; and organic matter, 3.8 and 3.8 dag/kg. The experimental area, where this study was carried out, has been used in multidisciplinary studies since its establishment in November 1997 (Müller, Fernandes, de Castro, Paciullo, & Alves, 2010;Paciullo et al, 2010;Xavier et al, 2014). The SPS is structured in 30-m-wide strips with the tropical perennial grass Brachiaria decumbens syn.…”