Deep, permeable soils buffer impacts of crop fertilizer on Amazon streams
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 11:30
in Earth & Climate
A new study in the fast-changing southern Amazon -- a region marked by widespread replacement of native forest by cattle ranches and croplands -- suggests that some of the damaging impacts of agricultural fertilization on local streams may be buffered by the deep, highly permeable soils that characterize large areas of the expanding cropland.