Low atmospheric nitrogen loads lead to grass encroachment in Coastal Dunes, but only on acid soils

Ecosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1173-1188

  Remke, Eva ^a,b   Brouwer, Emiel ^b   Kooijman, Annemieke ^c   Blindow, Irmgard ^a   Roelofs, Jan G M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acidification; Baltic Sea; Carex arenaria; Nitrogen deposition; Organic matter; Species loss

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; ACID SOIL; ACIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC GAS; DUNE; GRASSLAND; LICHEN; MINERALIZATION; MONOCOTYLEDON; PH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

CAREX; CAREX ARENARIA; POACEAE;

EID: 71449102741     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-009-9282-0     Document Type: Article

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