Fire and vegetation effects on productivity and nitrogen cycling across a forest-grassland continuum

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1703-1719

  Reich, P B ^a   Peterson, D W ^a   Wedin, D A ^a   Wrage, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP); Fire and productivity; Food grassland ecotones; Leaf area index; Mineralization; Nitrogen cycling; Oak; Primary production; Roots; Savanna

Indexed keywords

FIRE; NITROGEN CYCLE; PRODUCTIVITY; VEGETATION;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034952153     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[1703:FAVEOP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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