Water and nutrient outflow following the ecological restoration of a ponderosa pine-bunchgrass ecosystem

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 252-261

  Kaye, Jason P ^a,b   Hart, Stephen C ^a   Cobb, Richard C ^a,c   Stone, Joseph E ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; HABITAT RESTORATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LEACHING; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL WATER;

UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 0033385902     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1999.72018.x     Document Type: Article

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