The management systems with sugarcane in soils of Coastal Tablelands can cause important alterations in the soil matrix. The effects of different management systems with sugar cane in the organization of the matrix of a Cohesive Yellow Argisol, in the Triunfo Sugar Cane Mill in State of Alagoas, as compared to a virgin soil were studied. The management systems consisted of irrigated area, not irrigated, with vinasse application and an area under native forest as original condition. Samples were collected from each site at 0-0.2, 0.2-0.4 and 0.4-0.8 m depths to determine the alterations in the soil structure, in pore system and in the arrangement of particles of the soils cultivated with sugarcane, in relation to the soil under native forest. The cultivated soils presented an association of natural porosity with planar pores resultant of the cultivation and a more compact arrangement of particles in the soil matrix. In the aggregates of the cultivated soils a massive aspect and orientation of clay particle was verified in relation to the aggregates of the soil under native forest.
compaction; soil structure; oxides; coastal tablelands
