Soil drainage and phosphorus depletion contribute to retrogressive succession along a New Zealand chronosequence

Plant and Soil

Volumn 367, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 77-91

  Coomes, David A ^a   Bentley, Warren A ^a   Tanentzap, Andrew J ^b   Burrows, Larry E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Ecosystem retrogression; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Podsolization; Waterlogging

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DRAINAGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; PEDOGENESIS; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL TYPE; SUCCESSION; WATER TABLE; WATERLOGGING;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84878557894     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-013-1649-5     Document Type: Article

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