Soil nitrogen concentrations in a restored sedge meadow wetland as affected by the application of high C:N amendments

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-199

  Iannone, Basil V ^a,b   Rosen, Carl J ^a   Galatowitsch, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

High C:N amendments; Sedge meadow restorations; Soil nitrate depletion

Indexed keywords

QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 67650178332     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/er.27.2.193     Document Type: Article

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