“…J., Uberlândia, v. 36, n. 3, p. 743-760, May/June 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/BJ-v36n3a2020-47702 physical fractionation (CAMBARDELLA; ELLIOTT, 1992), the oxidation fractionation (CHAN;BOWMAN;OATES, 2001), the chemical fractionation (SWIFT, 1996;MADARI;MACHADO, 2003), and the carbon management index (CMI) (BLAIR;LEFROY;LISLE, 1995). Among these, the form used as an indicator of soil quality, more sensitive to changes in management, is the physical granulometric fractionation of soil in Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) and Organic Carbon Associated with Minerals (OCAM) (BALIN et al, 2017;FACCIN et al, 2016), because they are based on the degree of association of SOM with the soil matrix (GAZOLLA et al, 2015). Carbon is called POC when it is free or weakly associated with soil particles, or OCAM, when C is strongly bound to the mineral particles, forming organicmineral complexes (GAZOLLA et al, 2015).…”