The ecology of energy and nutrient fluxes in hemlock forests invaded by hemlock woolly adelgid

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1792-1804

  Stadler, Bernhard ^a,c   Müller, Thomas ^b   Orwig, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b Institute of Landscape Matter Dynamics   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adelges tsugae; Carbon nitrogen cycling; Hemlock woolly adelgid; Litter; Litter decomposition; Nonlinear ecosystem processes; Throughfall fluxes

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CANOPY; FOREST FLOOR; LEACHATE; LITTER; MICROCOSM; MICROORGANISM; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PEST DAMAGE; SURVIVAL;

NORTH AMERICA;

ADELGES TSUGAE; ADELGIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; FUNGI; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 33746513681     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1792:TEOEAN]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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