Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Changes Under Douglas-fir With and Without Red Alder
Andreas Rothea,
Kermit Cromack, Jr.*,b,
Sigrid C. Reshc,
Ender Makinecid and
Yowhan Sone
a Unit of Forest Nutrition and Water Resources, Dep. of Ecology, Technical Univ. of Munich, Am Hochanger 13, D-85354 Freising, Germany
b Jr., Dep. of Forest Science, 321 Richardson Hall, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR 97331
c 3342A Kauhana Pl., Honolulu, HI 96816
d Faculty of Forestry, Univ. of Istanbul, Soil Science and Ecology Dep., 80895 Bahcekoy, Istanbul, Turkey
e Dep. of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Korea Univ., Seoul 136-701, Korea

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Fig. 1. Resin N mineralization in red alder and Douglas-fir plots during summer 1999. Error bars indicate means ± standard error. The three bar graphs show (a) resin available NH4N, (b) resin available NO3N, and (c) resin total mineral N (NH4N + NO3N).
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Fig. 2. Relationship between N concentration of Douglas-fir mature needles and proportion of red alder in an 8-m diam. circle.
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