Relationships between soil properties and slope position in a lowland rain forest of southern Taiwan

Geoderma

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 131-142

  Tsui, Chun Chih ^a   Chen, Zueng Sang ^a   Hsieh, Chang Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Altitudinal transect; Redundancy analysis; Slope; Soil properties; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPOSITION; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; NUTRITION; PH EFFECTS; SLOPE STABILITY; SOILS; VEGETATION;

REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS (RDA); SLOPE POSITION; SOIL NUTRIENTS; SOIL PROPERTIES;

GEODESY;

ALTITUDE; RAINFOREST; SLOPE; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 5544224701     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2004.01.031     Document Type: Article

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