The contribution of spawning Pacific-salmon to nitrogen fertility and vegetation nutrition during riparian primary succession on an expansive floodplain of a large river
Floodplain vegetation communities are mosaics of succession stages caused by erosion/redeposition as river channels migrate throughout their floodplains. Typically, plants colonizing alluvial deposits are severely N-limited, but N accumulates during succession, and this process determines long term...
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University of Montana
2008
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| Online Access: | http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3310436 |