Tropical dry forests of St. Lucia, West Indies: Vegetation and soil properties

Biotropica

Volumn 28, Issue 4 A, 1996, Pages 618-626

  Gonzalez, Otto J ^a   Zak, Donald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Nitrification; Nitrogen mineralization; Soil properties; Species composition; St. Lucia; Stand structure; Tropical dry forests

Indexed keywords

CROTON; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; GUETTARDA SCABRA; LUCIA; RUBIACEAE;

DISTURBANCE; SCRUB FOREST; SOIL; SOIL PROPERTIES; TROPICAL DRY FOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

ST LUCIA;

EID: 0030322094     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2389048     Document Type: Article

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