“…In Mollisols, SOC is considered one of the main agents that stabilizes soil aggregates (Fabrizzi et al, 2009), whereas in Oxisols, iron and aluminum oxides are the agents responsible for most of the stability of soil aggregates (Dalal and Bridge, 1996;Fabrizzi et al, 2009;Oades, 1993), and in Vertisols, aggregate stability may be attributed mostly to the high clay content, mainly smectite, which protects the SOC (Stephan et al, 1983). This suggests that SOC storage under a high soybean cropping frequency will be quite different depending on the soil type, since soils differ in textural, mineralogical and organic state.…”