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Vertical transportation of chemical Elements through water movement in Different vegetation

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Rainforest Ecosystems of East Kalimantan

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 140))

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Strongly weathered soils, such as Acrisols and Ferralsols, are found in the humid tropics. Due to the high rate of weathering under the constantly warm, humid climate of this region, these soils consist mainly of kaolinite, a highly weathered clay mineral that is composed mostly of silica, aluminum, hydrogen, and oxygen (Jordan 1985). As a result, these soils have a low potential for holding nutrients or supplying mineral nutrients through mineral weathering, and these characteristics are recognized as one of the most outstanding features of tropical soils. In East Kalimantan, the major soils are Acrisols derived from Neogene sedimentary rocks (Ohta and Effendi 1992).

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  1. Nagaharu Tanaka
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  2. Darul Aksa
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Bogor Agricultural University, P.O. Box 2019, Bogor Timur, 16144, Indonesia

    Edi Guhardja (Director, Master Master of Management in Agribusiness) (Director, Master Master of Management in Agribusiness)

  2. (Tropical Rain Forest Research Center), Mulawarman University, Kampus Gunung Kelua, P.O. Box 1165, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Mansur Fatawi (Director of PUSREHUT) (Director of PUSREHUT)

  3. Faculty of Forestry, Mulawarman University, Kampus Gunung Kelua, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Maman Sutisna (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

  4. PUSREHUT (Tropical Rain Forest Research Center), Mulawarman University, Kampus Gunung Kelua, P.O. Box 1165, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Tokunori Mori (Project Team Leader of JICA) (Project Team Leader of JICA)

  5. Forestry and Forest Product Research Institute (FFPRI), P.O. Box 16, Tsukuba Norin-Danchi, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan

    Seiichi Ohta (Section Chief of Forest Soil) (Section Chief of Forest Soil)

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Tanaka, N., Aksa, D., Effendi, S., Ohta, S. (2000). Vertical transportation of chemical Elements through water movement in Different vegetation. In: Guhardja, E., Fatawi, M., Sutisna, M., Mori, T., Ohta, S. (eds) Rainforest Ecosystems of East Kalimantan. Ecological Studies, vol 140. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-67911-0_5

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