Short-range spatial variability of soil physico-chemical variables related to earthworm clustering in a neotropical gallery forest

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1071-1080

  Jiménez, Juan José ^a,c   Decaëns, Thibaud ^b   Amézquita, Edgar ^c   Rao, Idupulapati ^c   Thomas, Richard J ^c,e   Lavelle, Patrick ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e United Nations University   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Correlograms; Earthworms; Gallery forest; Mantel test; Soil fauna; Spatial distribution; Variograms

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY; CORRELOGRAMS; EARTHWORMS; GALLERY FOREST; MANTEL TEST; SOIL FAUNA; VARIOGRAMS;

ANIMALS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ASSEMBLY RULE; CORRELATION; EARTHWORM; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; VARIOGRAM;

ANIMALS; FORESTRY; SOIL;

COLOMBIA; LLANOS;

ANDIODRILUS; EARTHWORMS (SP.);

EID: 79952447578     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.01.028     Document Type: Article

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