Soil Development and Nutrient Availability Along a 2 Million-Year Coastal Dune Chronosequence Under Species-Rich Mediterranean Shrubland in Southwestern Australia

Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 287-309

  Turner, Benjamin L ^a   Laliberté, Etienne ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

chronosequence; ecosystem development; nitrogen; nutrients; pedogenesis; phosphorus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925506207     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-014-9830-0     Document Type: Article

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