Small-scale spatial soil-plant relationship in semi-arid gypsum environments

Plant and Soil

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 139-150

  Rubio, Agustín ^a   Escudero, Adrían ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gypsum environment; Plant distribution; Soil heterogeneity; Soil patterning; Spatial pattern; Vegetation bands

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; GYPSUM; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0034080142     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1004764411116     Document Type: Article

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