Root responses and nitrogen acquisition by Artemisia tridentata and Agropyron desertorum following small summer rainfall events

Oecologia

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 317-324

  Ivans, Carolyn Y ^a,b   Leffler, A Joshua ^a   Spaulding, Usha ^a   Stark, John M ^a   Ryel, Ronald J ^a   Caldwell, Martyn M ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agropyron desertorum; Artemisia tridentata; Great Basin; Nitrogen uptake capacity; Root responses

Indexed keywords

NUTRIENT UPTAKE; RAINFALL; ROOT; WATER UPTAKE;

GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA;

AGROPYRON; AGROPYRON DESERTORUM; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; TRIDENTATA;

EID: 0037291907     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1089-z     Document Type: Article

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