Aspen Increase Soil Moisture, Nutrients, Organic Matter and Respiration in Rocky Mountain Forest Communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Buck, Joshua R ^a   St Clair, Samuel B ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; CONIFER; FOREST; FOREST SOIL; FOREST STAND; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULUS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL RESPIRATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMIDITY; POPULUS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TREES; UTAH;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84871327750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052369     Document Type: Article

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