A comparative kinetic analysis of nitrate and ammonium influx in two early-successional tree species of temperate and boreal forest ecosystems

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 321-328

  Min, Xiangjia ^a   Siddiqi, M Yaeesh ^a   Guy, Robert D ^a   Glass, Anthony D M ^a   Kronzucker, Herbert J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammonium fluxes; Kinetics of nitrate and ammonium uptake; Lodgepole pine; Nitrate fluxes; Nitrogen nutrition; Trembling aspen

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; KINETICS; NITRATE;

PINUS CONTORTA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 0034025757     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.2000.00546.x     Document Type: Article

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