No short-term change in soil properties following four-fold litter addition in a Costa Rican rain forest

Plant and Soil

Volumn 307, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 113-122

  Wood, Tana E ^a,b   Lawrence, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bray 1 P; La Selva; Litter manipulation; pH; Phosphorus; Seasonality; Soil moisture; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST FLOOR; LITTER; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PH; RAINFOREST; SEASONALITY; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; HEREDIA; LA SELVA;

EID: 43349091741     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-008-9588-2     Document Type: Article

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