Naturalization as a strategy for improving soil physical characteristics in a forested urban park

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 261-278

  Millward, Andrew A ^a   Paudel, Kamal ^b   Briggs, Suzanne E ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Credit Valley Conservation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bulk density; Compaction; Disturbance; Ordinary kriging; Parkland naturalization; Water infiltration

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955075212     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-010-0153-4     Document Type: Article

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