Soil-induced impacts on forest structure drive coarse woody debris stocks across central Amazonia

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 229-241

  Martins, Demétrius L ^a   Schietti, Juliana ^a   Feldpausch, Ted R ^b   Luizão, Flávio J ^a   Phillips, Oliver L ^c   Andrade, Ana ^a   Castilho, Carolina V ^d   Laurance, Susan G ^e   Oliveira, Átila ^f   Amaral, Ieda L ^f   Toledo, José J ^g   Lugli, Laynara F ^a   Veiga Pinto, José Luiz Purri ^c   Oblitas Mendoza, Erick M ^a   Quesada, Carlos A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM)   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE RORAIMA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

anoxia; carbon; effective soil depth; forest dynamics; line intercept sampling; necromass; soil physical properties; topographic index; tropical forest; vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924733392     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.879942     Document Type: Article

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