Abstract
Forest health deteriorated in eastern North America as a result of depletion of available soil base cations by elevated inputs of acid deposition. We experimentally restored available calcium (Ca) to soils of a forested watershed at Hubbard Brook, New Hampshire, and measured the response of fine root biomass 14 years after treatment. In this northern hardwood forest, fine root (
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 738-744 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Canadian Journal of Forest Research |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Acidification
- Allocation
- Leaf area index
- Mycorrhizae
- Production
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Global and Planetary Change
- Ecology
- Forestry