Regional and local patterns of soil nutrients at Rocky Mountain treelines

Geoderma

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 208-217

  Liptzin, Daniel ^a   Seastedt, Timothy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosequence; Edge effects; Eolian deposition; Nitrogen deposition; Treeline

Indexed keywords

BIOSEQUENCE; EDGE EFFECT; EOLIAN DEPOSITION; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; TREELINE;

AIR POLLUTION; DEPOSITION; ECOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEAD; NITROGEN; SOILS; VEGETATION;

SOIL TESTING;

ACID DEPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEPOSITION; EDGE EFFECT; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; HERB; LEAD ISOTOPE; NITROGEN; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL PROFILE; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TREELINE; TUNDRA;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649445729     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2010.09.022     Document Type: Article

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