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Published online 6 May 2005
Published in Soil Sci Soc Am J 69:906-914 (2005)
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2004.0130
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Soil Changes During Secondary Succession in a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Area

Angélica Bautista-Cruz* and Rafael F. del Castillo

Dep. de Recursos Naturales, CIIDIR IPN Oaxaca. Hornos 1003, Xoxocotlan 71230, Oaxaca, Mexico



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  		Fig. 1. Location of the three chronosequences studied: Juquila, Tanetze, and Yotao, at El Rincón, Oaxaca, Mexico. I = cornfield, II = incipient forest, III = young forest, IV = mature forest, and V = old-growth forest.

 


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  		Fig. 2. Patterns of response to the age of stand (mean values) for the thickness of the O horizon in three chronosequences of tropical montane cloud forest at El Rincón, Oaxaca, Mexico.

 


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  		Fig. 3. Patterns of response to the age of stand (mean values) for pH at the 0- to 20- and 20- to 40-cm soil depths and N/P ratio at the 0- to 20-cm soil depth in three chronosequences of tropical montane cloud forest at El Rincón, Oaxaca, Mexico.

 


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  		Fig. 4. Patterns of response to the age of stand (mean values) for exchangeable Ca, Al, K, and Mg, and effective cation-exchange capacity (ECEC) at the 0- to 20- and 20- to 40-cm soil depths in three chronosequences of tropical montane cloud forest at El Rincón, Oaxaca, Mexico.

 


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  		Fig. 5. Patterns of response (mean values) for soil organic carbon (SOC), plant-available P, soil bulk density, exchangeable acidity (EA) and base saturation (BS) to the age of stand at the 0- to 20- and 20- to 40-cm soil depths in three chronosequences of tropical montane cloud forest at El Rincón, Oaxaca, Mexico.

 




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