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Biogeochemistry of beetle-killed forests: Explaining a weak nitrate response

January 14, 2013

A current pine beetle infestation has caused extensive mortality of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) in forests of Colorado and Wyoming; it is part of an unprecedented multispecies beetle outbreak extending from Mexico to Canada. In United States and European watersheds, where atmospheric deposition of inorganic N is moderate to low (

Publication Year 2013
Title Biogeochemistry of beetle-killed forests: Explaining a weak nitrate response
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1221029110
Authors Charles C. Rhoades, James McCutchan, Leigh Cooper, David Clow, Thomas Detmer, Jennifer Briggs, John Stednick, Thomas Veblen, Rachel Ertz, Gene Likens, William Lewis
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title PNAS
Index ID 70204833
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Colorado Water Science Center
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