Hot Spots of Inorganic Nitrogen Availability in an Alpine-Subalpine Ecosystem, Colorado Front Range

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 848-863

  Darrouzet Nardi, Anthony ^a,b   Bowman, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

disproportion; inequality; Lorenz curve; Niwot Ridge LTER; nutrient availability; random forest model; spatially explicit

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; HERB; INORGANIC NITROGEN; ION EXCHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RESIN; SHRUB; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960292102     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9450-x     Document Type: Article

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