Amazonian soils mapped using indicator species

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 16:00 in Earth & Climate

Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental conditions, such as soils. Plant occurrence data are typically more abundant than soil samples in poorly known areas, and researchers have now developed a method that uses both plant and soil data to produce a map of soil properties.

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