Pedogenesis, permafrost, substrate and topography: Plot and landscape scale interrelations of weathering processes on the central-eastern Tibetan Plateau

Geoderma

Volumn 226-227, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 300-316

  Baumann, Frank ^a   Schmidt, Karsten ^a   Dörfer, Corina ^a   He, Jin Sheng ^b   Scholten, Thomas ^a   Kühn, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Multiple linear regression; Pedogenesis; Pedogenic oxides; Permafrost; Tibetan Plateau; Weathering indices

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; LINEAR REGRESSION; SOIL MOISTURE; SUBSTRATES; TOOLS; WEATHERING; ORGANIC CARBON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PEDOGENESIS; PEDOGENIC OXIDES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WEATHERING INDICES;

PERMAFROST;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PEDOGENESIS; PERMAFROST; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROFILE; SUBSTRATE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TOPSOIL; LANDSCAPE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; TOPOGRAPHY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WEATHERING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84898794404     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.02.019     Document Type: Article

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