Effects of harvesting on nutrient leaching in a Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.) ecosystem on a Lithic Leptosol in the Northern Limestone Alps

Plant and Soil

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-73

  Katzensteiner, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clearcut; Nitrogen; Nutrient leaching; Potassium; Spruce

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LEACHING; NUTRIENT LOSS; TIMBER HARVESTING;

AUSTRIA;

ABIES; LARIX; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 0037567506     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022821913932     Document Type: Article

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