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Models identity generated in neutron probe calibration in latosol cultivated with coffee and signalgrass
(Editora UFLA, 2018-10) Borges, Inácio Barbosa; Rocha, Omar Cruz; Malaquias, Juaci Vitória; Fagioli, Marcelo; Sá, Marcos Aurélio Carolino de; Guerra, Antônio Fernando
The cover plants affects soil spatial variability interfering with soil moisture and density, leading to doubts about the need for calibration of the neutron probe for different management systems. The objective of this study was to evaluate the Model Identity Method in the verification of equality of linear regressions resulting from the calibration of a neutron probe for different layers, as a function of signalgrass management as a cover crop between rows of soil coffee crop in the Brazilian Central Cerrado. Aluminum tubes were installed to access the probe and two saturation basins were built in a coffee area, irrigated by a central pivot, in an Oxisol, with two management systems, T (Traditional with bare soil) and Sg (Signalgrass in the row). Samples were taken at depths of 0-0.20; 0.20-0.40; 0.40-0.60; and 0.60-0.80 m for determination of gravimetric moisture and density, and the volumetric moisture was determined to follow the drying of the soil. Concomitantly, measurements were taken with the neutron probe in these layers. Two calibration curves were constructed for each layer, which were compared by the above method. It was observed that treatment Sg yielded differences in soil water storage in the 0.20- 0.40 m layer, differing from treatment T. The statistical method allowed the observation of equality of regressions between treatments Sg and T at depths 0-0.20, 0.40-0.60, and 0.60-0.80 m; it also showed the need for different regression curves per layer, besides justifying the need for neutron probe calibration for each specific local condition.