Chemical, physical and micromorphological properties of termite mounds and adjacent soils along a toposequence in Zona da Mata, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Catena

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-113

  Sarcinelli, Tathiane Santi ^a   Schaefer, Carlos Ernesto G R ^a   Lynch, Leila de Souza ^b   Arato, Helga Dias ^a   Viana, João Herbert M ^c   Filho, Manoel Ricardo de Albuquerque ^c   Gonçalves, Teresa Telles ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b Fellow of the National Research Council   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA MILHO E SORGO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Latosols; Micromorphology; Pedobioturbation; Soil biology; Termite mounds; Tropical soils

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CHEMICAL PROPERTY; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MUD MOUND; OXISOL; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SOIL BIOTA; TERMITE; TOPOSEQUENCE; TROPICAL SOIL;

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS; SOUTH AMERICA;

ARTHROPODA; ISOPTERA;

EID: 57749179504     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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