Ecological and site historical aspects of N dynamics and current N status in temperate forests

Global Change Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-141

  Brumme, Rainer ^a   Khanna, Partap K ^a  

^a Inst of Soil Sci and Forest Nutr   (Germany)

Author keywords

C sequestration; Forest development; Input output balance; N deposition; N saturation; N sequestration; Plant N uptake; Soil acidification; Soil development; Soil N store

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INDUSTRIALIZATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SOIL NUTRIENT; TEMPERATE FOREST; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 36849028179     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01460.x     Document Type: Article

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