RESEARCH ARTICLE

Controls of Soil Spatial Variability in a Dry Tropical Forest Sandeep Pulla1, Jean Riotte2,3, H. S. Suresh1, H. S. Dattaraja1, Raman Sukumar1* 1 Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India, 2 Indo-French Cell for Water Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India, 3 Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (IRD-Université Paul Sabatier-CNRS), 31400, Toulouse, France * [email protected]

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Abstract

OPEN ACCESS Citation: Pulla S, Riotte J, Suresh HS, Dattaraja HS, Sukumar R (2016) Controls of Soil Spatial Variability in a Dry Tropical Forest. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0153212. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153212 Editor: Dafeng Hui, Tennessee State University, UNITED STATES Received: August 22, 2015 Accepted: March 27, 2016 Published: April 21, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Pulla et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

We examined the roles of lithology, topography, vegetation and fire in generating localscale (

Controls of Soil Spatial Variability in a Dry Tropical Forest.

We examined the roles of lithology, topography, vegetation and fire in generating local-scale (...
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