Downslope fertilizer movement in arctic tussock tundra

• Published in: Ecography
• Main Authors: Kummerow, J., Mills, J. N., Ellis, B. A., Hastings, S. J., Kummerow, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1987
• Subjects: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Northern Foothills; Brooks Range; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.1987.tb00774.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1600-0587.1987.tb00774.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0587.1987.tb00774.x

Slow release fertilizer pellets (NPK) were spread in June and July 1985, on the frost surface under an 8–20 cm thick layer of thawed tundra in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska. The fertilizer was applied at a rate of 3.8 kg N, 1.2 kg P 2 O 5 , and 2.4 kg K to two, 10 × 0.75 m tusso...