Influence of landscape on the apportionment of Ca nutrition in a Boreal Shield forest of Saskatchewan (Canada) using 87Sr/86Sr as a tracer

Canadian Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 267-288

  Bélanger, Nicolas ^a   Holmden, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

87Sr 86Sr; Atmospheric deposition; Boreal forest; Calcium cycling; Calcium to strontium ratios; Forest floor; Soil mineral weathering; Sr Ca; Strontium isotopes; Tree calcium pools

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BOREAL FOREST; CALCIUM; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FLOOR; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRACER; VALLEY; WATERSHED; WEATHERING PROFILE;

BOREAL SHIELD; CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 77951432662     PISSN: 00084271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/CJSS09079     Document Type: Article

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