Nitrogen cycling following mountain pine beetle disturbance in lodgepole pine forests of Greater Yellowstone

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1077-1089

  Griffin, Jacob M ^a   Turner, Monica G ^a   Simard, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Disturbance ecology; Foliar nitrogen; Insect outbreaks; Litter nitrogen; Nitrification; Nitrogen mineralization; Pinus contorta; Rocky Mountains; Soils

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCES; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; DISTURBANCE ECOLOGY; FOLIAR NITROGEN; INSECT OUTBREAKS; LITTER NITROGEN; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; PINUS CONTORTA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; LEACHING; MINERALOGY; NEEDLES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SOFTWOODS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; LITTER; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEDGE; STAND STRUCTURE;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAKES; LEACHING; NEEDLES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; PINUS CONTORTA; PLANTS; SOFTWOODS; SOIL;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; HEXAPODA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 79551547010     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.12.031     Document Type: Article

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