Legumes native to longleaf pine savannas exhibit capacity for high N2-fixation rates and negligible impacts due to timing of fire

New Phytologist

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 327-338

  Hiers, J K ^a,b   Mitchell, R J ^a   Boring, L R ^a   Hendricks, J J ^c   Wyatt, R ^d  

^a JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

^d Highlands Biological Station   (United States)

Author keywords

C allocation; Centrosema virginianum; Fine root turnover; Flowering; Rhynchosia reniformis; Tephrosia virginiana

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FIRE; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; TRADE-OFF;

CENTROSEMA; CENTROSEMA VIRGINIANUM; PINUS PALUSTRIS; RHYNCHOSIA; RHYNCHOSIA RENIFORMIS; TEPHROSIA; TEPHROSIA VIRGINIANA;

EID: 0037316340     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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