The effects of mobile tree islands on soil phosphorus concentrations and distribution in an Alpine tundra ecosystem on Niwot Ridge, Colorado front range, U.S.A.

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 16-20

  Parker, Eva Rawlings ^a   Sanford Jr , Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TREE;

COLORADO; NIWOT RIDGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032984071     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1552618     Document Type: Article

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