Vegetation - Soils relationships in a wetland area of the Orinoco delta plain (Venezuela)

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 88, Issue , 2006, Pages 315-324

  Vegas Vilarrubia T ^a   Lopez P ^a   Baritto, F ^b   Melean G ^b   Ponce, M E ^b   Gomez O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Geohidra Consultores CA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Cation exchange capacity; Mangroves; Meadows; Organic matter; Salinity; Soil acidity; Swamp forests

Indexed keywords

ACID SOIL; ACIDIFICATION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DELTA; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MANGROVE; MEADOW; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SALINITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SWAMP FOREST; VEGETATION;

DELTA AMACURO; ORINOCO DELTA; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 36148934119     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/CENV060301     Document Type: Article

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