Effects of damage to living plants on leaf litter quality

Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 269-275

  Findlay, Stuart ^a   Carreiro, Margaret ^a,b   Krischik, Vera ^a,c   Jones, Clive G ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 219 Hodson Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Leaf damage; Leaf litter; Ozone; Phenolics; Populus deltoides; Ultraviolet B

Indexed keywords

ACARI; POPULUS; POPULUS DELTOIDES;

EID: 0000926101     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269570     Document Type: Article

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