The impact of tourist trampling on Icelandic Andosols

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 143, Issue , 2006, Pages 55-73

  Gisladottir, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDOSOL; DRY DENSITY; MOSS; NATIONAL PARK; SHRUB; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EROSION; TOPSOIL; TOURISM; TRAMPLING; VEGETATION COVER;

ARCTIC; ICELAND; SKAFTAFELL NATIONAL PARK; SNAEFELLSJOKULL NATIONAL PARK;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 33845912443     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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