Variation in Aboveground Cover Influences Soil Nitrogen Availability at Fine Spatial Scales Following Severe Fire in Subalpine Conifer Forests

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1081-1095

  Turner, Monica G ^a   Romme, William H ^b   Smithwick, Erica A H ^c   Tinker, Daniel B ^d   Zhu, Jun ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^e University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Abies lasiocarpa; fire ecology; geostatistics; nitrogen cycling; northern Rocky Mountains; Picea engelmanii; Pinus contorta; scale; semivariogram; spatial heterogeneity; succession

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; AUTOCORRELATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUND COVER; HETEROGENEITY; LITTER; MINERALIZATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; SUCCESSION; VARIOGRAM; WILDFIRE;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 80855131453     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9465-3     Document Type: Article

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