Smog nitrogen and the rapid acidification of forest soil, San Bernardino Mountains, southern California

TheScientificWorldJournal

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 175-180

  Wood, Yvonne A ^a   Fenn, Mark ^b   Meixner, Thomas ^c   Shouse, Peter J ^d   Breiner, Joan ^b   Allen, Edith ^a   Wu, Laosheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Forest soils; Geochemistry; Landscape atmosphere interactions; Nitrogen; Soil hydrology; Soil pH; Stone lines

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; FOREST SOIL; HYDROLOGY; PH; SMOG; SOIL ACIDIFICATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN; SMOG; SOIL; TREES; WATER;

EID: 34247199869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2007.74     Document Type: Article

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