Impacts of management legacies on litter decomposition in response to reduced precipitation in a tallgrass prairie

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 79-85

  Reed, H E ^a   Blair, J M ^b   Wall, D H ^c   Seastedt, T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Burning; Decomposition; Drought; Legacy effects; Management regime; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349208161     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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