Spatial distribution of earthworms in acid-soil savannas of the eastern plains of Colombia

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 267-278

  Jiménez, Juan J ^a   Rossi, J P ^b   Lavelle, P ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregation index; Geostatistics; Population ecology; Principal component analysis; Savannas; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034951560     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(01)00133-0     Document Type: Article

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