Fire is more important than water for nitrogen fluxes in semi-arid forests

Environmental Science and Policy - Tập 1 - Trang 79-86 - 1998
D.W. Johnson1, R.B. Susfalk1, R.A. Dahlgren2, J.M. Klopatek3
1Biological Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 89506, USA
2Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
3Department of Botany, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

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