Responses to ammonium and nitrate additions by boreal plants and their natural enemies. Nordin, A., Strengbom, J., & Ericson, L. Environmental Pollution, 141(1):167–174, May, 2006. Place: Oxford Publisher: Elsevier Sci Ltd WOS:000236771400018
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Separate effects of ammonium (NH4+) and nitrate (NO3-) on boreal forest understorey vegetation were investigated in an experiment where 12.5 and 50.0 kg nitrogen (N) hat year' was added to 2 m(2) sized plots during 4 years. The dwarf-shrubs dominating the plant community, Vaccinium myrtillus and V. vitis-idaea, took up little of the added N independent of the chemical form. and their growth did not respond to the N treatments. The grass Deschampsia flexuosa increased from the N additions and most so in response to NO3-. Bryophytes took up predominately NH4+ and there was a negative correlation between moss N concentration and abundance. Plant pathogenic fungi increased from the N additions, but showed no differences in response to the two N forms. Because the relative contribution of NH4+ and NO3- to the total N deposition on a regional scale can vary substantially, the N load a habitat can sustain without substantial changes in the biota should be set considering specific vegetation responses to the predominant N form in deposition. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
@article{nordin_responses_2006,
	title = {Responses to ammonium and nitrate additions by boreal plants and their natural enemies},
	volume = {141},
	issn = {0269-7491},
	doi = {10.1016/j.envpol.2005.08.017},
	abstract = {Separate effects of ammonium (NH4+) and nitrate (NO3-) on boreal forest understorey vegetation were investigated in an experiment where 12.5 and 50.0 kg nitrogen (N) hat year' was added to 2 m(2) sized plots during 4 years. The dwarf-shrubs dominating the plant community, Vaccinium myrtillus and V. vitis-idaea, took up little of the added N independent of the chemical form. and their growth did not respond to the N treatments. The grass Deschampsia flexuosa increased from the N additions and most so in response to NO3-. Bryophytes took up predominately NH4+ and there was a negative correlation between moss N concentration and abundance. Plant pathogenic fungi increased from the N additions, but showed no differences in response to the two N forms. Because the relative contribution of NH4+ and NO3- to the total N deposition on a regional scale can vary substantially, the N load a habitat can sustain without substantial changes in the biota should be set considering specific vegetation responses to the predominant N form in deposition. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	language = {English},
	number = {1},
	journal = {Environmental Pollution},
	author = {Nordin, A. and Strengbom, J. and Ericson, L.},
	month = may,
	year = {2006},
	note = {Place: Oxford
Publisher: Elsevier Sci Ltd
WOS:000236771400018},
	keywords = {N deposition, N form, N uptake, atmospheric nitrogen, bryophytes, community, density, deposition, growth, pathogen, pathogenic fungi, productivity, species-diversity, valdensinia-heterodoxa, vegetation change},
	pages = {167--174},
}

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