Trends in major and trace elements in decomposing needle litters during a long-term experiment in Swedish forests

Plant and Soil

Volumn 306, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 199-210

  Brun, Christian B ^a   Åström, Mats E ^a   Peltola, Pasi ^a   Johansson, Maj Britt ^b  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal; Decomposition; Forest litter; Long term; Multielement; Trace element

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEACHING; LEAF LITTER; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TRACE ELEMENT;

PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 41949123628     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-008-9572-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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