Relationship between soil properties and leaf functional traits in early secondary succession of tropical montane cloud forest

Ecological Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 213-224

  Hernández Vargas, Guadalupe ^a   Sánchez Velásquez, Lázaro R ^a   López Acosta, Juan C ^a   Noa Carrazana, Juan C ^a   Perroni, Yareni ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

CWM; nitrogen; phosphorus; soil C:N; Veracruz

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLOUD FOREST; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; LEAF; MONTANE FOREST; PLANT; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL PROPERTY; VEGETATION TYPE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; VERACRUZ;

EID: 85060823349     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.1267     Document Type: Article

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