Multivariate analysis in the quantitative evaluation of soils for reforestation in the Sierra Nevada (southern Spain)

Geoderma

Volumn 69, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 233-248

  Sanchez Maranon M ^a   Delgado, R ^b   Parraga J ^b   Delgado, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST; REFORESTATION; SOIL COLOUR; SOIL EVALUATION;

SPAIN, SIERRA NEVADA;

EID: 0029663761     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7061(95)00065-8     Document Type: Article

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