Surface soil changes following selective logging in an eastern Amazon forest

Earth Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-19

  Olander, Lydia P ^a   Bustamante, Mercedes M ^b   Asner, Gregory P ^a   Telles, Everaldo ^b   Prado, Zayra ^b   Camargo, Plínio B ^c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Logging; Nutrients

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; FORESTRY; LOGGING (FORESTRY); SOILS;

BRAZIL; ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS; LOGGING DISTURBANCE; REDUCED-IMPACT LOGGING; REDUCING CONDITIONS; SELECTIVE LOGGING; SITE PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL BULK DENSITY;

NUTRIENTS;

EID: 77955931682     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI135.1     Document Type: Article

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