Relation of soil-, surface-, and ground-water distributions of inorganic nitrogen with topographic position in harvested and unharvested portions of an aspen-dominated catchment in the Boreal Plain

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2090-2103

  Macrae, M L ^a,c   Devito, K J ^a   Creed, I F ^b   Macdonald, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; GROUNDWATER; NITRATES; NITROGEN; SOILS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

BOREAL FOREST; INORGANIC NITROGEN;

FORESTRY;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; AMMONIUM; BOREAL FOREST; FORESTED CATCHMENT; GROUNDWATER; NITRATE; SOIL NITROGEN; SURFACE WATER; TOPOGRAPHY;

GROUND WATER; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PLANTS; POPULUS; SOIL; WETLANDS;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 33845619080     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-101     Document Type: Article

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