IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/perpro/v7y1996i3p229-255.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Cryptogamic soil buds in the equatorial Andes of Venezuela

Author

Listed:
  • Francisco L. Pérez

Abstract

Soil buds, formed by particle heaving and sorting by needle ice, were studied in a high Andean paramo. Soils were finer in buds than in adjacent trough areas, where pebbles had been concentrated by lateral sorting. Some buds were composed only of mineral grains, others were covered by a cryptogamic crust of liverworts (Marsupella spp.) or mosses (Grimmia longirostris). Particle sorting was studied by comparing the grain‐size distributions of buds and troughs, and by using a numerical sorting index. Degree of sorting varied widely among bare bud sites, where it was dependent on the presence of gravel in the substrate. Sorting was pronounced in sites with cryptogamic plants, where fines (

Suggested Citation

  • Francisco L. Pérez, 1996. "Cryptogamic soil buds in the equatorial Andes of Venezuela," Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 7(3), pages 229-255, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:perpro:v:7:y:1996:i:3:p:229-255
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199609)7:33.0.CO;2-7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199609)7:33.0.CO;2-7
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199609)7:33.0.CO;2-7?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:perpro:v:7:y:1996:i:3:p:229-255. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://doi.org/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1530 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.