Nitrogen recovery in planted seedlings, competing vegetation, and soil in response to fertilization on a boreal mine reclamation site

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 360, Issue , 2016, Pages 60-68

  Sloan, Joshua L ^a,b   Uscola, Mercedes ^a   Jacobs, Douglass F ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing vegetation; Fertilization; Nitrogen tracing; Nitrogen uptake; Polymer coated fertilizer; Reclamation

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; LAND RECLAMATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; NUTRIENTS; OIL SANDS; PLASTIC COATINGS; POLYMERS; RECOVERY; REFORESTATION; SEED; SOILS; UREA; VEGETATION;

CONTROL TREATMENTS; CONTROLLED-RELEASE FERTILIZERS; FERTILIZATION; NITROGEN RECOVERY; NITROGEN UPTAKE; NUTRITIONAL RESPONSE; POLYMER COATED FERTILIZER; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

RECLAMATION;

BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MINE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; POLYMER; RHIZOSPHERE; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

PICEA GLAUCA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 84945156292     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.10.024     Document Type: Article

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