Effects of bracken fern invasions on harvested site soils in Pacific Northwest (USA) coniferous forests

Northwest Science

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 191-198

  Griffiths, Robert P ^a   Filan, Trina ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERN; FOREST SOIL; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL NITROGEN;

CASCADE RANGE; H.J. ANDREWS EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM;

EID: 34547431232     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3955/0029-344X-81.3.191     Document Type: Article

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