A Broad Approach to Abrupt Boundaries: Looking Beyond the Boundary at Soil Attributes within and Across Tropical Vegetation Types

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Warman, Laura ^a,b   Bradford, Matt G ^c   Moles, Angela T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Inst of Pacific Islands Forestry   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST SOIL; FOREST STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHANGE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL PROPERTY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VEGETATION;

SOIL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84876047497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060789     Document Type: Article

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