Recovery of topsoil characteristics after landslip erosion in dry hill country of New Zealand, and a test of the space-for-time hypothesis

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1575-1586

  Sparling, Graham ^a   Ross, Des ^b   Trustrum, Noel ^b   Arnold, Greg ^b   West, Andrew ^d   Speir, Tom ^c   Schipper, Louis ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d Tertiary Education Commission   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Erosion; Landslide; soil; Landslips; Organic matter; Restoration; Soil enzymes; Soil quality indicators

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; ENZYME KINETICS; EROSION; MICROBIOLOGY; PH EFFECTS;

LANDSLIPS; SOIL RESILIENCE;

SOILS;

CHRONOSEQUENCE; LANDSLIDE; RECOVERY; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TOPSOIL;

NEW ZEALAND;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0242407455     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2003.08.002     Document Type: Article

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