Hydrometeorologic, pedologic and vegetation patterns along an elevational transect in the montane forest of the Bolivian Yungas

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Volumn 139, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 141-168

  Gerold, Gerhard ^a   Schawe, Marcus ^b   Bach, Kerstin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Fachbereich Geographie ^*  (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Climatic and pedologic altitudinal change; Tropical montane rainforest

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MONTANE FOREST; PEDOLOGY; RAINFOREST; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION;

BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 52649166684     PISSN: 00139998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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