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The effects of fire on soil nitrogen associated with patches of the actinorhizal shrub Ceanothus cordulatus

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Oakley, Brian B., North, Malcolm P., and Franklin, Jerry F.

Abstract:

Nitrogen is a limiting resource in many temperate forests and nitrogen-fixing plants are usually limited to the early stages of post-disturbance succession. In fire-dependent Sierra Nevada forests, however, Ceanothus cordulatus is relatively abundant even in old-growth forest conditions which are at least partly maintained by fire.We conducted a field experiment...

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. © 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 35 The effects of fire on soil nitrogen