Spatial dependency of soil nutrient availability and microbial properties in a mixed forest of Tsuga heterophylla and Pseudotsuga menziesii, in coastal British Columbia, Canada

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2429-2435

  Bengtson, Per ^a   Basiliko, Nathan ^a   Prescott, Cindy E ^a   Grayston, Susan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon; Geostatistics; Microbial biomass; Moisture; Nitrogen; Nutrients; pH; Phosphorus; PRS probes; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MINERAL SOIL; PRS PROBES; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION;

AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CONIFEROUS TREE; GEOSTATISTICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PH; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; NUTRIENTS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; TSUGA; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

EID: 34447525100     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.04.010     Document Type: Article

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