The effects of phytophagous insects on water and soil nutrient concentrations and fluxes through forest stands of the Level II monitoring network in the UK

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 169-181

  Pitman, R M ^a   Vanguelova, E I ^a   Benham, S E ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forest monitoring; K flux; Oak; Sitka spruce; Soil type; Soil water NO3 N; Spruce aphid; Throughfall DOC flux; Total N flux; UK; Water quality; Winter moth

Indexed keywords

FOREST MONITORING; K FLUX; OAK; SITKA SPRUCE; SOIL TYPE; SOIL WATER NO3-N; SPRUCE APHID; THROUGHFALL; TOTAL N FLUX; UK; WINTER MOTH;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LEACHING; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC CARBON; POTASSIUM; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

SOIL POLLUTION;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; NITRATE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; RAIN; SOIL WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANOPY; DEPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; LEACHING; MICROBIOLOGY; POTASSIUM; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL TYPE; SOIL WATER;

APHID; ARTICLE; CANOPY; CATERPILLAR; CINARA PILICORNIS; CLAY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFOLIATION; ELATOBIUM ABIETINUM; FOREST STAND; HUMUS; LEACHING; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; OAK; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANDY SOIL; SITKA SPRUCE; SOIL MICROFLORA; TORTRIX VIRIDANA; TREE GROWTH; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GREAT BRITAIN; INSECTS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TREES;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; INSECTS; LEACHING; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUTRIENTS; PICEA SITCHENSIS; POTASSIUM; QUERCUS; SOIL; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

LLYN BRIANNE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

APHIDIDAE; CINARA PILICORNIS; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; ELATOBIUM ABIETINUM; HEXAPODA; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; TORTRIX VIRIDANA;

EID: 78149358437     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.09.029     Document Type: Article

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