Tree-ring cation response to experimental watershed acidification in West Virginia and Maine

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 299-309

  DeWalle, David R ^a   Tepp, Jeffrey S ^a   Swistock, Bryan R ^a   Sharpe, William E ^a   Edwards, Pamela J ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; LANTHANUM; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATERSHEDS; WOOD;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA (ICP) METHOD; SOIL ACIDIFICATION; XYLEM;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; AMMONIUM SULFATE; CALCIUM ION; CATION; MAGNESIUM ION; MANGANESE;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY DEPOSITION; NONHUMAN; TREE; UNITED STATES; WATER SUPPLY;

LARIX; LARIX LEPTOLEPIS; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 0032910619     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq1999.00472425002800010037x     Document Type: Article

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