The experiment was conducted on a dystrophic red latosol (Oxisol) soil
in 2008, in a commercial area of a sugarcane factory in the municipality of Paraguac¸ u Paulista, São Paulo
state, Brazil. The treatments included areas previously burned, areas with mechanical harvesting and no
burning and native forest. Soil samples were collected immediately after the sugarcane harvest from the
treatments at a depth of 0–20 cm.