Patterns of nitrogen accumulation and cycling in riparian floodplain ecosystems along the Green and Yampa rivers

Oecologia

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 108-116

  Adair, E Carol ^a   Binkley, Dan ^a   Andersen, Douglas C ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mineralization; Nitrification; Northwest Colorado; Primary succession; Sediment deposition

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; RIPARIAN ZONE; TURNOVER;

COLORADO; GREEN RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YAMPA RIVER;

PERIDERIDIA GAIRDNERI; RIPARIA;

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METABOLISM; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SOIL; TREE;

DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NITROGEN; RIVERS; SOIL; TREES;

EID: 3142738318     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1486-6     Document Type: Article

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