Soil oxygen availability and biogeochemistry along rainfall and topographic gradients in upland wet tropical forest soils

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 301-328

  Silver, Whendee L ^a,b   Lugo, A E ^b   Keller, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Climate; Methane; N2O; Puerto Rico; Soil oxygen; Soil phosphorus

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; OXYGEN; SOIL GAS; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL SOIL;

EID: 0033037766     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006034126698     Document Type: Article

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