Nursery nitrogen loading improves field performance of bareroot oak seedlings planted on abandoned mine lands

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 339-349

  Salifu, K Francis ^a   Jacobs, Douglass F ^a   Birge, Zonda K D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest restoration; Mine lands; Nitrogen loading; Reclamation; Red oak; White oak

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED MINE; LAND RECLAMATION; NITROGEN; NURSERY GROUND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING;

INDIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 64749089094     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00373.x     Document Type: Article

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