Soil does not explain monodominance in a Central African tropical forest

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Peh, Kelvin S H ^a,b   Sonké, Bonaventure ^c   Lloyd, Jon ^a,d   Quesada, Carlos A ^a   Lewis, Simon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BARIUM; CALCIUM; CARBON; COPPER; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SELENIUM; SILICON; SODIUM; SODIUM PEROXIDE; ZINC; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; CAMEROON; CARBON NITROGEN RATIO; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GILBERTIODENDRON DEWEREI; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURE; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SURFACE SOIL; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; AFRICA; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; FABACEAE; METABOLISM; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SOIL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

GILBERTIODENDRON; GILBERTIODENDRON DEWEVREI;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; BIODIVERSITY; FABACEAE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 79951829312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016996     Document Type: Article

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