Relationship between soils and Amazon forest biomass: A landscape-scale study

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 118, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 127-138

  Laurance, William F ^a   Fearnside, Philip M ^a   Laurance, Susan G ^a   Delamonica, Patricia ^a   Lovejoy, Thomas E ^b   Rankin De Merona, Judy M ^a   Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^c   Gascon, Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon basin; Biomass; Carbon cycle; Ferralsols; Global warming; Pasture conversion; Soils; Terra firme forests; Tropical rainforests

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033553790     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00494-0     Document Type: Article

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