How does pedogenesis drive plant diversity?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 331-340

  Laliberté, Etienne ^a   Grace, James B ^b   Huston, Michael A ^c   Lambers, Hans ^a   Teste, François P ^a   Turner, Benjamin L ^d   Wardle, David A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Texas State University   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEDOGENESIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WEATHERING;

SOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; TIME;

BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84878208170     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.02.008     Document Type: Review

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