Mortality and community changes drive sudden oak death impacts on litterfall and soil nitrogen cycling

New Phytologist

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 422-431

  Cobb, Richard C ^a   Eviner, Valerie T ^a   Rizzo, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community pathogen feedback; Ecosystem ecology; Emerging infectious disease; Nitrification; Nitrogen mineralization; Phytophthora ramorum; Redwood forests

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DISEASE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LITTERFALL; MINERALIZATION; MORTALITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; OVERSTORY; PATHOGEN; SOIL NITROGEN;

LAURUS NOBILIS; LITHOCARPUS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS; UMBELLULARIA CALIFORNICA;

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMMUNITY-PATHOGEN FEEDBACK; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; OAK; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; PLANT DISEASE; REDWOOD FORESTS; SEASON; SEQUOIA; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNECOLOGY; TREE; UMBELLULARIA;

COMMUNITY-PATHOGEN FEEDBACK; ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY; EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; REDWOOD FORESTS;

CARBON; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASES; QUERCUS; SEASONS; SEQUOIA; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; UMBELLULARIA;

EID: 84884416263     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12370     Document Type: Article

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