Landscape-Scale vegetation dynamics inferred from spatial spatterns of soil δ13C in a subtropical savanna parkland

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Bai, Edith ^a,b   Boutton, Thomas W ^a   Ben Wu, X ^a   Liu, Feng ^a,c   Archer, Steven R ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; FOREST SOIL; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; LANDSCAPE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION MAPPING; WOODY PLANT; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONTOUR MAP; GEOSTATISTICS; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL TYPE;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649498307     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JG000839     Document Type: Article

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