Rocky Mountain forest soils: Evaluating spatial variability using conventional statistics and geostatistics

Canadian Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 501-507

  Rahman, S ^a,b   Munn, L C ^a   Zhang, R ^a   Vance, G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Agriculture Research Institute   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

forest soils; geostatistics; Medicine Bow Mountains; principle component analysis; Rocky Mountains; spatial variability

Indexed keywords

FOREST SOIL; SOIL MAP; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICS;

USA, ROCKY MOUNTAINS; USA, WYOMING, MEDICINE BOW MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0030407449     PISSN: 00084271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/cjss96-062     Document Type: Article

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