Tree growth and soil acidification in response to 30 years of experimental nitrogen loading on boreal forest

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 489-499

  Högberg, Peter ^a   Fan, Houbao ^a,b   Quist, Maud ^a,c   Binkley, Dan ^d   Tamm, Carl Olof ^e  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NANCHANG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Swedish National Agency for Higher Education   (Sweden)

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

^e NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Forest growth; Forest soils; Nitrogen deposition; Soil acidification

Indexed keywords

ACID DEPOSITION; ACIDIFICATION; BOREAL FOREST; FOREST SOIL; GROWTH; NITROGEN;

EID: 33645012651     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01102.x     Document Type: Article

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