Soil Characteristics under Three Vegetation Types Associated with Shifting Cultivation in a Mixed Dipterocarp Forest in Sarawak, Malaysia

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 231-241

  Hattori, Daisuke ^a   Sabang, John ^b   Kendawang, Joseph Jawa ^b   Tanaka, Sota ^c   Ninomiya, Ikuo ^a   Sakurai, Katsutoshi ^d  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sarawak Department of Health   (Malaysia)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degraded forest; Mixed dipterocarp forest; Sarawak; Shifting cultivation; Soil characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444375889     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0765.2005.tb00027.x     Document Type: Article

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