Ecological restoration alters nitrogen transformations in a ponderosa pine-bunchgrass ecosystem

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1052-1060

  Kaye, Jason P ^a,b   Hart, Stephen C ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

15N; N mineralization; Nitrification; Northern Arizona; Pinus ponderosa Laws.; Ponderosa pine bunchgrass communities; Prescribed burning; Restoration ecology; Tree thinning

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT RESTORATION; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SOIL NUTRIENT; THINNING;

ARIZONA; FLAGSTAFF; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 0031766497     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[1052:ERANTI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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