Soil denitrification fluxes from three northeastern North American forests across a range of nitrogen deposition

Oecologia

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 17-27

  Morse, Jennifer L ^a,b   Durán, Jorge ^a,c   Beall, Fred ^d   Enanga, Eric M ^e   Creed, Irena F ^d   Fernandez, Ivan ^f   Groffman, Peter M ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrification; Nitrogen deposition; Nitrogen enrichment; Nitrous oxide; Northern forests; Soil oxygen

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CANADA; CHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; FOREST; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL; TREE; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; DENITRIFICATION; FERTILIZERS; FORESTS; MAINE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROUS OXIDE; ONTARIO; SOIL; TREES; WETLANDS;

EID: 84939974984     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3117-1     Document Type: Article

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