Foliar nitrogen responses to elevated atmospheric nitrogen deposition in nine temperate forest canopy species

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5191-5197

  Mcneil, Brenden E ^a,c   Read, Jane M ^a   Driscoll, Charles T ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Syracuse University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; NITROGEN; REGIONAL PLANNING; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN DEPOSITION; FOREST CANOPY; SATURATION THEORY;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY;

NITROGEN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; NITROGEN; REGIONAL PLANNING;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST CANOPY; GROWING SEASON; NITROGEN; POLLUTION EFFECT; REMOTE SENSING;

ARTICLE; CANOPY; ECOSYSTEM; FOLIAGE; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NONHUMAN; SPECIES; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; NEW YORK; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

ADIRONDACK PARK; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN DEPOSITION; CANOPY TREES; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOLIAR N; FOLIAR NITROGEN; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; GROWING SEASON; INTRINSIC VARIABILITIES; LEAF MASS PER AREA; N DEPOSITION; N SATURATION; NEW YORK; REGIONAL SURVEYS; SHADE TOLERANCE; STATUS OF FORESTS; TEMPERATE FORESTS;

EID: 34547679735     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es062901z     Document Type: Article

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