Short-term soil inorganic N pulse after experimental fire alters invasive and native annual plant production in a Mojave Desert shrubland

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 253-263

  Esque, Todd C ^a,b   Kaye, Jason P ^c   Eckert, Sara E ^c   DeFalco, Lesley A ^a   Tracy, C Richard ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual grass fire cycle; Inorganic N; Plant interactions; Resource pulse; Schismus

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

AMMONIFICATION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DESERT; FIRE; GRASS; INORGANIC NITROGEN; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LABORATORY METHOD; MINERALIZATION; NATIVE SPECIES; NITRIFICATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SHRUBLAND; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NITROGEN; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARREA; PLANT; POACEAE; RAGWEED; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

AMBROSIA; ARIZONA; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARREA; NITROGEN; PLANT SHOOTS; POACEAE; SOIL;

MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

SCHISMUS;

EID: 77955776127     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1617-1     Document Type: Article

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