Nutrient status in alpine soils of the Colorado Front Range using the nitrogen/phosphorus ratio index

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1628-1636

  Iggy Litaor, M ^a   Seastedt, T R ^b   Sackett, L C ^b  

^a TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; ADSORPTION; FLUXES; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SORPTION;

BELOWGROUND PLANTS; CORRELATION ANALYSES; FERTILIZATION EXPERIMENTS; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; NUTRIENT ACCUMULATIONS; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; NUTRIENT LIMITATIONS; NUTRIENT STATUSES; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PLANT MATERIALS; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENTS; SOIL NUTRIENTS; SORPTION CAPACITIES;

NUTRIENTS;

ADSORPTION; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL NUTRIENT;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56749179117     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2006.0434     Document Type: Article

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