The effects of the moss layer on the decomposition of intercepted vascular plant litter across a post-fire boreal forest chronosequence

Plant and Soil

Volumn 367, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 199-214

  Jackson, Benjamin G ^a   Nilsson, Marie Charlotte ^a   Wardle, David A ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Feather mosses; Litter decomposition; Litter interception; Moss removal; Post fire chronosequence; Understory

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DECOMPOSITION; FOREST FIRE; LEAF LITTER; MOSS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL FERTILITY; UNDERSTORY; VASCULAR PLANT;

SWEDEN;

BRYOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84878561972     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1549-0     Document Type: Article

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