Arctic soils: Spatial distribution, zonality and transformation due to global change

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235-250

  Goryachkin, S V ^a   Karavaeva, N A ^a   Targulian, V O ^a   Glazov, M V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic; Global warming; Soils; Zonation

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; FROZEN GROUND; GLOBAL CHANGE; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TUNDRA;

EID: 0033401148     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199907/09)10:3<235::AID-PPP320>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Review

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