Differences in soil chemical properties with distance to roads and age of development in urban areas

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 483-497

  Park, Sun Jeong ^a   Cheng, Zhiqiang ^a   Yang, Hanbae ^a   Morris, Elizabeth E ^a   Sutherland, Meaghan ^a   Gardener, Brian B McSpadden ^a   Grewal, Parwinder S ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance to roads; Soil carbon; Soil nitrogen; Soil pH; Turfgrass; Urban soils; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

POACEAE;

EID: 77957782450     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-010-0130-y     Document Type: Article

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