Decoupling of soil development and plant succession along a 60000 years chronosequence in Llaima Volcano, Chile Desacoplamiento del desarrollo del suelo y la sucesión vegetal a lo largo de una cronosecuencia de 60 mil años en el volcán Llaima, Chile

Few studies have investigated the long-term evolution of nutrient limitation in ecosystems developed on volcanic soils. To approach the problem, we used "space for time substitution" to compare sites with the same state factors, except for the time elapsed since disturbance. Forests of Con...

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Main Authors: MARÍA-BELÉN GALLARDO, CECILIA PÉREZ, MARIELA NÚÑEZ-ÁVILA, JUAN J. ARMESTO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-09-01
Series:Revista Chilena de Historia Natural
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2012000300004