Edaphic interslope and valley bottom differences at 'Evolution Canyon', lower Nahal Oren, Mount Carmel, Israel

Catena

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 241-254

  Nevo, E ^a   Travleev, A P ^b   Belova, N A ^b   Tsatskin, A ^a   Pavlicek T ^a   Kulik, A F ^b   Tsvetkova, N N ^b   Yemshanov, D C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Soil Sci and Ecol D ^*  (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Biotic divergence; Israel; Microclimate differentiation; Mount Carmel; Slope soil differentiation; Terra Rossa

Indexed keywords

ASPECT; LIMESTONE; MICROCLIMATE; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; TERRA ROSSA;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0032212652     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(98)00071-X     Document Type: Article

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