Positive feedbacks to anthropogenic nitrogen deposition in Rocky Mountain Alpine tundra

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Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 514-517

  Bowman, William D ^a   Steltzer, Heidemarie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado ^*

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44. We thank Carol Bilbrough, Jill Baron, Diane McKnight, Russ Monson, Tim Seastedt, and two anonymous reviewers for comments on this manuscript, and Steve Schmidt for advice with field measurements. Financial support for the work was provided by the NSF sponsored Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research Program, the U.S EPA, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and an NSF predoctoral fellowship to H. Steltzer
45. First submitted 28 April 1997. Accepted for publication after revision 29 August 1997.