Funding was received from the Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada to JK and the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station(Projects 1153,1398 and 1423 to JAL)which has designated this as Journal Paper 9626.
Background: Large-diameter trees have an outsized influence on aboveground forest dynamics, composition, and structure. Although their influence on aboveground processes is well studied, their role in shaping belowgro...
Funding was received from the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station(projects 1153 and 1398 to JAL and 1423 to JAL,LLY,and DJM)and the Smithsonian Institution ForestGEO.Research was performed under the National Park Service research permits CEBR-2014-SCI-0001,CEBR-2015-SCI0001,CEBR-2016-SCI-0001,CEBR-2017-SCI-0001,CEBR-2018-SCI-0001,and CEBR-2019-SCI-0001 for study CEBR-00016.
Background:The epidemic Dendroctonus rufipennis(spruce beetle)outbreak in the subalpine forests of the Colorado Plateau in the 1990s killed most larger Picea engelmannii(Engelmann spruce)trees.One quarter century late...
We would like to thank Heidi Guenther,Matt Ross,and Conor Morrison,who all helped conduct the laboratory experiment.In addition,we would like to thank Will Wieder and the Townsend Lab at the University of Colorado for assistance analyzing gas samples and Dr.William Adams for providing use of laboratory equipment.Finally,we would like to acknowledge the two anonymous reviewers and Dr.Bettina Weber for reviewing the manuscript.
Introduction:Nitrogen fixation by microorganisms within biological soil crust(“biocrust”)communities provides an important pathway for N inputs in cool desert environments where soil nutrients are low and symbiotic ...