Coevolution of nonlinear trends in vegetation, soils, and topography with elevation and slope aspect: A case study in the sky islands of southern Arizona

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 741-758

  Pelletier, Jon D ^a   Barron Gafford, Greg A ^a,b   Breshears, David D ^b   Brooks, Paul D ^b   Chorover, Jon ^b   Durcik, Matej ^b   Harman, Ciaran J ^b   Huxman, Travis E ^a,b   Lohse, Kathleen A ^b,c   Lybrand, Rebecca ^b   Meixner, Tom ^b   McIntosh, Jennifer C ^b   Papuga, Shirley A ^b   Rasmussen, Craig ^b   Schaap, Marcel ^b   Swetnam, Tyson L ^b   Troch, Peter A ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

climatic geomorphology; landscape evolution model; pedogenesis, lidar

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CLIMATE EFFECT; COEVOLUTION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LIDAR; PEDOGENESIS; SATELLITE DATA; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ARIZONA; SANTA CATALINA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880706037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrf.20046     Document Type: Article

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