Mixed Plantations of Eucalyptus and Leguminous Trees

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Why Mixed Forest Plantation?

   • Ranieri Ribeiro Paula, Ivanka Rosado de Oliveira, José Leonardo de Moraes Gonçalves, Alexandre de Vicente Ferraz

   Pages 1-13

3. Growth Patterns at Different Sites and Forest Management Systems

   • Carolina Braga Brandani, Felipe Martini Santos, Ivanka Rosado de Oliveira, Bruno Bordon, Maurel Bheling, Eduardo Vinicius Silva et al.

   Pages 15-43

4. Nutrient Cycling in Mixed-Forest Plantations

   • José Henrique Tertulino Rocha, José Leonardo de Moraes Gonçalves, Alexandre de Vicente Ferraz

   Pages 45-56

5. Litter Decomposition and Soil Carbon Stocks in Mixed Plantations of Eucalyptus spp. and Nitrogen-Fixing Trees

   • Fabiano de Carvalho Balieiro, Fernando Vieira Cesário, Felipe Martini Santos

   Pages 57-90

6. Soil Bacterial Structure and Composition in Pure and Mixed Plantations of Eucalyptus spp. and Leguminous Trees

   • Caio Tavora Coelho da Costa Rachid

   Pages 91-101

7. Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) in Mixed-Forest Plantations

   • Sergio Miana de Faria, Fabiano de Carvalho Balieiro, Ranieri Ribeiro Paula, Felipe Martini Santos, Jerri Edson Zilli

   Pages 103-135

8. Mycorrhiza in Mixed Plantations

   • Maiele Cintra Santana, Arthur Prudêncio de Araujo Pereira, Bruna Andréia de Bacco Lopes, Agnès Robin, Antonio Marcos Miranda Silva, Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira Cardoso

   Pages 137-154

9. Mesofauna and Macrofauna in Soil and Litter of Mixed Plantations

   • Maurício Rumenos Guidetti Zagatto, Luís Carlos Iuñes Oliveira Filho, Pâmela Niederauer Pompeo, Cintia Carla Niva, Dilmar Baretta, Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira Cardoso

   Pages 155-172

10. Bioindicators of Soil Quality in Mixed Plantations of Eucalyptus and Leguminous Trees

    • Arthur Prudêncio de Araujo Pereira, Daniel Bini, Emanuela Gama Rodrigues, Maiele Cintra Santana, Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira Cardoso

    Pages 173-192

11. Ecosystem Services in Eucalyptus Planted Forests and Mixed and Multifunctional Planted Forests

    • Fabiano de Carvalho Balieiro, Luiz Fernando Duarte de Moraes, Rachel Bardy Prado, Ciro José Ribeiro de Moura, Felipe Martini Santos, Arthur Prudêncio de Araujo Pereira

    Pages 193-219

12. The Risk of Invasions When Using Acacia spp. in Forestry

    • Ciro José Ribeiro de Moura, Nina Attias, Helena de Godoy Bergallo

    Pages 221-240

13. Multifunctional Mixed-Forest Plantations: The Use of Brazilian Native Leguminous Tree Species for Sustainable Rural Development

    • Antonio Carlos Gama-Rodrigues

    Pages 241-256

14. The Brazilian Legal Framework on Mixed-Planted Forests

    • Luiz Fernando Duarte de Moraes, Renata Evangelista de Oliveira, Maria Jose Brito Zakia, Helena Carrascosa Von Glehn

    Pages 257-270

15. Back Matter

    Pages 271-280

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The aim of this book is to present, in depth, updated information on soil and microbial processes involved in mixed plantations of Eucalyptus and N2-fixing species, especially Acacia mangium, focusing on Forestry, Soils, Biology, Ecosystem Services and Sustainability. The potential of substituting chemical N fertilizer by a consortium of leguminous species that fix atmospheric nitrogen is an interesting solution for a more sustainable, economically and environmentally sound forest system. Among the main topics, we present reference topics on soil microbiology, as biological nitrogen fixation, the role of mycorrhiza in mixed plantations, bio-indicators of soil quality, and plantgrowth promoting bacteria with biotechnological potential. Here we discuss Ecosystem services and ecological benefits of these systems, the invasive potential of A.mangium, as well as the regulations and perspectives of land use policies for mixed forests and their role in the sustainability of the system.

• mixed forest
• nutrient cycling
• forest management
• mycorrhiza
• land use
• nitrogen fixation
• soil management
• silviculture

“This book is unique in terms of providing insight into mixed forests plantation using leguminous trees and its application to improve Eucalyptus production. … This book is good for all scientific communities related to forest sciences, for academics to industries. Also this book is recommended for agricultural students, biologists, environmental engineers, and undergraduate and graduate students in these areas … . This book is not only specific for Brazilian readers, but also … be extremely useful for global readers.” (Arthur Prudêncio de Araujo Pereira, Maiele Cintra Santana and Jay Prakash Verma, Anthropocene Science, Vol. 1, 2022)

• Department of Soil Science, University of São Paulo “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, Piracicaba, Brazil

  Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira Cardoso

• Department of Forest Science, University of São Paulo “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, Piracicaba, Brazil

  José Leonardo de Moraes Gonçalves

• EMBRAPA Soils, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Fabiano de Carvalho Balieiro

• EMBRAPA Agrobiology, (Retired Researcher), Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Seropédica, Brazil

  Avílio Antônio Franco

Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira Cardoso: Prof. Cardoso holds a PhD degree in plant pathology from the Ohio State University (USA) and a post doc from Göttingen University (Germany). She is currently full professor of soil microbiology and biotechnology in the Department of Soil Science at University of São Paulo (Brazil) where she has been working since 1971 and has supervised more than 100 post-graduate and post-doctoral students. Her research interests are focused on ecology and agricultural sustainability, forestry, plant growth promoting microorganisms, plant microbiomes, organic residues in agriculture and forestry, and soil remediation. She has published more than 130 scientific articles in international journal, about 20 books and book chapters, many in cooperation with colleagues from other countries.


José Leonardo de Moraes Gonçalves: Full Professor at the Department of Forest Sciences at the University of São Paulo. He has undertaken extensive research on soil fertility, site preparation, and plant nutrition, focusing on the tropical and subtropical eucalypt and pine plantations, including genotypic adaptation and phenotypic acclimatization of plantations in regions with high water, thermal and nutritional stresses. Ecosystem management and sustained production of wood and non-wood products from planted forests always were among his main objectives, having been a pioneer in forest research with minimum tilling in the early nineties. He has edited three books and published more than one hundred scientific articles in journals of wide dissemination and international impact. He supervised 25 masters, 24 doctors and 5 post-doctorates.


Fabiano de Carvalho Balieiro: Dr. Balieiro holds a PhD in soil science from Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) where he also was a post doc fellow. He currently works as a researcher at the National Center forSoil Research at Embrapa Solos (Brazil) and his research is focused on nutrient cycling, soil organic matter dynamics and soil ecology in different crop systems (eucalyptus, mixed forest plantations and sugar cane) and native vegetation (Amazon and Atlantic Forests and Cerrado biomes).  Dr. Balieiro has published 27 articles in high impact factor journals over the past 5 years and edited the book “Manual of Fertilization and Liming for the State Rio de Janeiro” (in Portuguese), a publication on the sustainable agricultural development in Rio de Janeiro State (Brazil).


Avílio Antônio Franco: Dr. Franco is a graduated Agricultural Engineer from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (UFRRJ), and he obtained a MSc. in Microbiology from the University of New South Wales (Australia), a PhD in Soil Science from the University of California-Davis (USA) and a post doc from the University of Queensland (Australia). Retired scientist from the Center for Agrobiology at Embrapa (Brazil) after 40 years of activity. Supervised 33 graduate students at URRJ and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and published 92 scientific articles and 25 books and book chapters. His research interests are soil microbiology (Biological Nitrogen Fixation), plant nutrition, land reclamation and agroforestry. He is an Effective Member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC) and The Third World Academy of Science (TWAS). Received the Brazilian National Scientific Award.

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