Soil N and plant responses to fire, topography, and supplemental N in tallgrass prairie

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1832-1843

  Turner, Clarence L ^a,b   Blair, John M ^a   Schartz, Rita J ^a   Neel, Jeffery C ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertilizer N; Fire; Grasslands; Kansas; Landscape; N mineralization; Nitrogen cycling; NPP; Tallgrass prairie; Topography

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZATION; FIRE; GRASSLAND; NITROGEN CYCLING; SOIL; TALLGRASS PRAIRIE; TOPOGRAPHY;

USA, KANSAS, FLINT HILLS;

EID: 0030613573     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1832:SNAPRT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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