Fertilization at planting influences seedling growth and vegetative competition on a post-mining boreal reclamation site

New Forests

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 687-701

  Sloan, Joshua L ^a   Jacobs, Douglass F ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive interactions; Controlled release fertilizer; Forest restoration; Mine reclamation; Nutrient management; Outplanting

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS; CONTROLLED-RELEASE FERTILIZERS; FOREST RESTORATION; MINE RECLAMATION; NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT; OUTPLANTING;

CONSERVATION; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; OIL SANDS; SOILS;

NUTRIENTS;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RESPONSE; HABITAT RESTORATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIMITING FACTOR; MINING; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYMER; RECLAIMED LAND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

COMPETITION; CONSERVATION; FERTILIZERS; FORESTS; NUTRIENTS; RESTORATION; SOIL;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 84884796700     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-013-9378-4     Document Type: Article

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