Wood ash and nitrogen influence on ground vegetation cover and chemical composition

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 710-716

  Ozolincius R ^a   Buozyte R ^a   Varnagiryte Kabasinskiene I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Biomass of moss; Ground vegetation cover; Heavy metals; N fertilizers; Nutrients; Pleurozium schreberi; Wood ash

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HEAVY METALS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; VEGETATION;

GROUND VEGETATION COVER; PLEUROZIUM SCHREBERI; WOOD ASH;

WOOD WASTES;

BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HEAVY METALS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; VEGETATION; WOOD WASTES;

BIOMASS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HEAVY METAL; MOSS; NITROGEN; SANDY SOIL; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION COVER; WOOD ASH;

BRYOPHYTA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLEUROZIUM SCHREBERI; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 34948884086     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2007.06.015     Document Type: Article

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