Managing symbiotically-fixed nitrogen on mined land for tree crops

Young mine soils constructed following surface-mining for coal contain low levels of organic matter and nitrogen. It was hypothesized that nitrogen-fixing plants could be incorporated into a reforestation system in a manner that would meet the short term and long-term nitrogen needs of crop trees wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Sarah K.
Other Authors: Forestry
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45624
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11102009-020308/