Enrichment of soil and its environmental impact

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Adriano Cabrera-Rodríguez
Rosmery Cruz-Camacho

Abstract

Phosphorus is one of the three primary macronutrients required for the growth of plants and animals. Its excessive application in agrosystems has generated soils enriched with P in many latitudes. The review's aim is to provide an abbreviated consideration of the meaning enriched with P and its environmental effects. When the balance between the applied P minus the exported is positive, the assimilable P increases. Therefore, an accumulation of P occurs over the years, producing the P-enrichment of soils. Phosphorus participates in the eutrophication of water bodies, which is exacerbated by P-enriched soils. In P-enriched soils, the pH increases, the content of organic matter decreases, the kaolinite is decomposed, nutrition is affected by antagonistic effects, and mycorrhizal function is inhibited.

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Cabrera-Rodríguez, A., & Cruz-Camacho, R. (2023). Enrichment of soil and its environmental impact. Cultivos Tropicales, 43(2), e14. Retrieved from https://ediciones.inca.edu.cu/index.php/ediciones/article/view/1665
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