Testing a nitrogen-cycling model of a forest stream by using a nitrogen-15 tracer addition

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 283-298

  Hall Jr , Robert O ^a,b   Peterson, Bruce J ^c   Meyer, Judy L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory (North Carolina); Detritivory; Macroinvertebrates; Model; Nitrogen cycling; Nitrogen 15; Stream; Tracer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000074248     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900022     Document Type: Article

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