Fine-root growth, mortality and heavy metal concentrations in limed and fertilized Pinus silvestris (L.) stands in the vicinity of a Cu-Ni smelter in SW Finland

Plant and Soil

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 193-200

  Helmisaari, Heljä Sisko ^a   Makkonen, Kirsi ^a   Olsson, Marie ^b   Viksna, Arturs ^b   Mälkönen, Eino ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Fine roots; Heavy metals; Liming; Nutrients

Indexed keywords

PINUS SILVESTRIS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 0032796696     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004595531203     Document Type: Article

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