Spatial variability of soil nutrients in disturbed riverine mangrove forests at different stages of regeneration in the San Juan River estuary, Venezuela

Estuaries

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 44-57

  Rivera Monroy, Victor H ^a   Twilley, Robert R ^a   Medina, Ernesto ^b   Moser, E Barry ^c   Botero, Leonor ^d   Francisco, Ana Marta ^b   Bullard, Evelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d COLCIENCIAS ^*  (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FOREST CLEARANCE; MANGROVE; REGENERATION; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

HALOPHILA; RHIZOPHORA; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE;

EID: 2142695400     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02803559     Document Type: Article

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