Effects of vegetation succession on soil fertility within farming-plantation ecotone in ziwuling mountains of the loess plateau in China

Agricultural Sciences in China

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1481-1491

  Liang, Jian ^a   Wang, Xiao An ^a   Yu, Zhong Dong ^b   Dong, Zhong Min ^c   Wang, Jin Cheng ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Loess Plateau; Multivariate statistical analysis; Soil fertility; Vegetation succession; Vegetation soil communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958137797     PISSN: 16712927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1671-2927(09)60241-8     Document Type: Article

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