From missing source to missing sink: Long-term changes in the nitrogen budget of a northern hardwood forest

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 11440-11448

  Yanai, Ruth D ^a   Vadeboncoeur, Matthew A ^b   Hamburg, Steven P ^c   Arthur, Mary A ^d   Fuss, Colin B ^e   Groffman, Peter M ^f   Siccama, Thomas G ^g   Driscoll, Charles T ^e  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e Syracuse University   (United States)

^f CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^g Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FIXATION; BIOMASS ACCUMULATION; HUBBARD BROOK EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; LONG TERM RECORDS; LONG-TERM CHANGES; NITROGEN BUDGETS; NITROGEN DYNAMICS; NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST;

DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEMS; NITROGEN;

FORESTRY;

NITROGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONITORING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT BUDGET; PREDICTION; STREAMWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; NITROGEN AVAILABILITY; NITROGEN BALANCE; UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; NITROGEN;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES;

ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 84886940949     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4025723     Document Type: Article

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