Tropical soils in Mato Grosso, Brazil, retain high phosphorus (P) binding capacity after 30 years of intensive fertilization and will remain a P sink for another 50-160 years.
Stephen Porder1, Eric D. Roy2, Edwin Willig3, Luiz Antonio Martinelli4, Lindomar Pegorini5, Peter Richards6, Stephanie Anne Spera7 and Filipe Ferraz Vazquez5, (1)Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States, (2)University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, VT, United States, (3)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (4)Universidade de Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil, (5)State University of Mato Grosso, Sinop, Brazil, (6)USAID, Washington, United States, (7)University of Richmond, Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, Richmond, United States
