The DIRT Project

(Detritus Input, Removal, & Transfer)

REFERENCES CITED

 

Aitkenhead-Peterson, J.A., McDowell, W.H., Lajtha, K., and P. Micks. 2003. Sources of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in a hardwood forest floor. In review.

 

Boone, R. D. 1994. Light-fraction soil organic matter: origin and contribution to net nitrogen mineralization. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 26:1459-1468.

 

Bowden, R.D., G. Rullo, G.R. Stevens and P.A. Steudler. 2000. Soil fluxes of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane at a productive temperate deciduous forest. Journal of Environmental Quality 29:268-276.

 

Bowden, R.D., Nadelhoffer, K.J., Boone, R.D., Melillo, J.M., and Garrison, J. 1993. Contributions of aboveground litter, belowground litter, and root respiration to total soil respiration in a temperate mixed hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23: 1402-1407.

 

Davidson, E. A., S. C. Hart, C. A. Shanks and M. K. Firestone. 1991. Measuring gross nitrogen mineralization, immobilization, and nitrification by 15N isotope dilution in intact soil cores. Journal of Soil Science 42:335-349.

 

Edwards, N.T. 1982. The use of soda lime for measuring respiration rates in terrestrial systems. Pedobiologia 23: 321-338.

Nielsen, G.A., and Hole, F.D. 1963. A study of the natural processes of incorporation of organic matter into soil in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 52: 213-227.

 

Nadelhoffer, Nadelhoffer, K.J., R.D. Boone, R.D. Bowden, J.D. Canary, J. Kaye, P. Micks, A. Ricca, J.A. Aitkenhead, K. Lajtha, and W.H. McDowell. 2003. The DIRT experiment: litter and root influences on forest soil organic matter stocks and function. Chapter 6 in: D. Foster and J. Aber (eds.), Forest Landscape Dynamics in New England: Ecosystem Structure and Function as a Consequence of 5000 years of Change. Synthesis Volume of the Harvard Forest LTER Program. Oxford University Press. In Press.

 

Nadelhoffer, K. J. 1990. A microlysimeter for measuring N mineralization and microbial respiration in aerobic soil incubations. Soil Science Society of America Journal 54:411-415.

 

Nadelhoffer, K. J., and B. Fry. 1988. Controls on natural nitrogen-15 and carbon-13 abundances in forest soil organic matter. Soil Science Society of America Journal 52(5):1633-1640.

 

Raich, J.W., Bowden, R.D., and Steudler, P.A. 1990. Comparison of two static chamber techniques for determining carbon dioxide efflux from forest soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 54: 1754-1757.

 

Robarge, W.P., and I. Fernandez. 1986. Quality Assurance Methods Manual for Laboratory Analytical Techniques. U.S.E.P.A. and U.S.D.A. Forest Service Forest

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