Effect of clear-felling and harvest residue removal on nitrogen and phosphorus export from drained norway spruce mires in southern finland

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 693-706

  Kaila, Annu ^a,b   Laurén, Ari ^a   Sarkkola, Sakari ^a   Koivusalo, Harri ^d   Ukonmaanaho, Liisa ^a   O’Driscoll, Connie ^c   Xiao, Liwen ^c   Asam, Zaki ^c   Nieminen, Mika ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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