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Title

Landscape evolution, soil formation, and ecological patterns and processes in Sonoran Desert...

Authors

McAuliffe, Joseph R.

Abstract

Examines the interrelationships among landscape evolution, soil formation and ecological patterns and processes in alluvial fans or bajadas found in Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Arizona. Geomorphic history and pedogenic diversity of three alluvial fans in Sonoran Desert; Relationships between landscape patterns and vegetational composition.

Subjects

SONORAN Desert; ALLUVIAL fans; LANDSCAPE ecology; SOIL formation

Publication

Ecological Monographs, 1994, Vol 64, Issue 2, p111

ISSN

0012-9615

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.2307/2937038