Global and local variations in tropical montane cloud forest soils

Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 79-89

  Roman, L ^a   Scatena, F N ^b   Bruijnzeel, L A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511778384.008     Document Type: Chapter

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