Climate cycles, geomorphological change, and the interpretation of soil and ecosystem development
- Author:
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Hotchkiss, Sara, Vitousek, Peter M., Chadwick, Oliver A., Price, Jonathan
- Title:
- Climate cycles, geomorphological change, and the interpretation of soil and ecosystem development
- Periodical:
- Ecosystems
- Year:
- 2000
- Volume:
- 3
- Pages:
- 522-533
- Subject:
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Soil development
Climate history
Climatic changes
Erosion
Subsidences
Ecosystem development
- Summary:
- In this paper, the influence of climate change, subsidence, and erosion on the history of temperature and precipitation on a chronosequence of sites across Hawaii were evaluated and the implications for slow processes in ecosystem development is discussed.
- Label:
- Weather & Climate
- URL:
- http://cletus.uhh.hawaii.edu:2074/10.1007/s100210000046
- Collection:
- Periodicals