Digital soil mapping in Southern Ecuador

Erdkunde

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 309-319

  Liess, Mareike ^a   Glaser, Bruno ^a   Huwe, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CART; Ecuador; GIS; Soil landscape modelling; Tropical mountain rainforest

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CAMBISOL; DIGITAL MAPPING; FOREST SOIL; GIS; HISTOSOL; LANDSLIDE; MONTANE FOREST; RAINFOREST; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TYPE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ECUADOR;

EID: 77950292060     PISSN: 00140015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2009.04.02     Document Type: Article

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