Forest edges as nutrient and pollutant concentrators: Potential synergisms between fragmentation, forest canopies, and the atmosphere

Conservation Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1506-1514

  Weathers, K C ^a   Cadenasso, M L ^a   Pickett, S T A ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST EDGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; POLLUTION; SYNERGISM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035674637     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.01090.x     Document Type: Article

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