Vegetation and soil biota response to experimentally-changed nitrogen inputs in coniferous forest ecosystems of the NITREX project

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 101, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 65-79

  Boxman, Andries W ^a   Blanck, Kai ^b   Brandrud, Tor Erik ^c   Emmett, Bridget A ^d   Gundersen, Per ^h   Hogervorst, Rene F ^e   Kjønaas, O Janne ^f   Persson, Hans ^g   Timmermann, Volkmar ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h NONE

Author keywords

Conifers; Decomposition; Fine roots; Ground vegetation; Mycorrhizae; N addition; N removal; Soil fauna

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; NITREX PROJECT; NITROGEN; SOIL BIOTA; TREE GROWTH;

EUROPE;

EID: 0032006687     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(97)00126-6     Document Type: Article

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