In the study conducted by Marchiori and Melo (2000), the area under sugarcane exhibited decreases of 41.3% to 49.1% at a depth of 0–10 cm and, in the 10–20 cm layer, the drop was of the order of 23.7% to 35.8%. These values are close to those found in our study, with drops of 37.9% under sugarcane without burn and 59.7% under sugarcane with burn