Relationships among soil carbon distributions and biophysical factors at nested spatial scales in rain forests of northeastern Costa Rica

Geoderma

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 165-190

  Powers, Jennifer S ^a,b   Schlesinger, William H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Soil carbon; Soil mineralogy; Tropical rain forests

Indexed keywords

FOREST SOIL; GLOBAL CHANGE; MINERALOGY; SOIL CARBON; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0036820856     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7061(02)00147-7     Document Type: Article

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