Effects of past land use on spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients in southern appalachian forests

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 215-230

  Fraterrigo, Jennifer M ^a,d   Turner, Monica G ^a   Pearson, Scott M ^b   Dixon, Philip ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MARS HILL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Iowa State University ^*  (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Cations; Forest ecosystem recovery; Grazing; Land use history; Logging; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Semivariograms

Indexed keywords

FOREST DYNAMICS; LAND USE; LOGGING (TIMBER); NITRIFICATION; NUTRIENT BUDGET; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 18444412276     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0475     Document Type: Article

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