Variation in soil nitrate concentrations in two N-saturated Norway spruce forests (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) in southern Bavaria: Implications for the assessment and regionalisation of the N status of forests

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 187, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 203-217

  Mellert, Karl H ^a,c   Gensior, Andreas ^b   Göttlein, Axel ^a   Kölling, Christian ^b   Rücker, Gernot ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bavarian State Institute of Forestry   (Germany)

^c ZEBRIS GIS and Consulting   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Inventory; Monitoring; N status; Nitrate concentration; Nitrogen saturation; Spatial heterogeneity; Uncertainty; Variogram

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FORESTRY; NITRATES;

GEOSTATISTICS; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; VARIOGRAM;

SOIL SURVEYS;

NITRATE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FORESTRY; NITRATES; SOIL SURVEYS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INVENTORY; NITRATE; REGIONALIZATION; ROOTING; SEEPAGE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL NITROGEN; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; NORWAY SPRUCE; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER FLOW;

CONCENTRATION; FORESTRY; NITRATES; SOIL;

BAVARIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 36749063484     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-007-9509-7     Document Type: Article

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