Amounts and nutrient weights in litterfall, and their annual cycles, from a series of fertilizer experiments on pole-stage Sitka spruce

Forestry

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1996, Pages

  Miller, J D ^a   Cooper, J M ^b   Miller, H G ^b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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