Soil carbon, nutrients, and mycorrhizae during conversion of dry tropical forest to grassland

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 171-182

  Johnson, Nancy C ^a,b   Wedin, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Deforestation; Dry tropical forests; Fire; Grass invasion; Hyparrhenia rufa; Mycorrhizae; Nitrogen mineralization; Nutrient dynamics; Soil organic matter; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; DRY TROPICAL FOREST; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; GRASSLAND; MYCORRHIZA; ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NUTRIENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA, GUANACASTE PROVINCE;

EID: 0030616822     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0171:SCNAMD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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