Variation in foliar nitrogen and aboveground net primary production in young postfire lodgepole pine

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1024-1035

  Turner, Monica G ^a   Smithwick, Erica A H ^b   Tinker, Daniel B ^c   Romme, William H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION OF; EARLY-SUCCESSIONAL; FOLIAR N; FOLIAR NITROGEN; HIGH DENSITY; INCREASING TREES; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; LODGEPOLE PINE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OLD LODGEPOLE PINE; POST-FIRE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TREE DENSITY; YELLOWSTONE;

NEEDLES; SOILS;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS FOREST; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; WILDFIRE;

FOLIAR ANALYSIS; FOREST FIRES; FOREST LITTER; NUTRIENTS; PINUS CONTORTA; SOIL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 66249143738     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-029     Document Type: Article

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