Soil carbon and litter development along a reconstructed biodiverse forest chronosequence of South-Western Australia

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 197-209

  George, S J ^a   Kelly, R N ^a   Greenwood, P F ^a   Tibbett, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bauxite mining; Fractionation; Jarrah forest; Nitrogen; Rehabilitation; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE; BIODIVERSITY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; FOREST CLEARANCE; FRACTIONATION; LITTER; PEDOGENESIS; RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA;

EID: 78650016654     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-010-9519-1     Document Type: Article

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