Soil properties of termite mounds under different land use types in a Typic Paleudult of Midwestern Nigeria

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-7

  Ekundayo, E O ^a   Aghatise, V O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; INSECT; LAND USE; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; SOIL;

BULK DENSITY; LAND USE; PARTICLE SIZE; RAINFOREST; SOIL PROPERTIES; TERMITE MOUNT; TROPICAL SOIL; URBAN SOIL;

NIGERIA;

ISOPTERA;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CULTIVATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LAND USE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

FALLOWING; RAINFORESTS; TERMITE MOUNDS;

SOILS;

EID: 0030615848     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005794628150     Document Type: Article

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