Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Modelling nitrogen mineralization and plant nitrogen uptake as affected by reclamation cover depth in reclaimed upland forestlands of Northern Alberta

  • Published:
Biogeochemistry Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Early forest re-establishment in landforms constructed from materials such as overburden or mine waste is partly determined by nitrogen (N) availability in reclamation covers. Here we examined whether the ecosystem model ecosys which simulates key processes governing N availability such as mineralization, plant N uptake and N return to soil through litterfall could be used to forecast potential N limitations for forest re-establishment in these constructed landforms. In this study, N cycling was simulated and tested against measured soil, foliar and surface litter N concentrations with three soil covers differing in thickness (35, 50, and 100 cm) in a 17-year-old forest reclamation site and in an analogue natural forested site in northern Alberta. Overall, results from this study demonstrated the applicability of the ecosys model in predicting nutrient cycling in reclaimed upland forestlands. Results of this study highlight the importance of optimum cover depth to ensure sufficient N is available for plant growth. Even though the modelled net N mineralization, N uptake and thereby plant productivity increased with cover depth, the foliar and surface litter N concentrations did not. A non-linear relationship between total soil nitrogen (TN) stocks and modelled net N mineralization indicated that cover depth, which determines TN stock, had little effect on net primary productivity beyond a threshold TN. This threshold was 17 Mg N ha−1, similar to TN for the 100 cm cover, giving a net N mineralization rate of ~ 3.5 g N m−2 year−1, and this was attributed to reduced microbial activity in deeper soil layers.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Alberta Environment (2010) Guidelines for Reclamation to Forest Vegetation in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, 2nd edn. Terrestrial Subgroup of the Reclamation Working Group of the Cumulative Environmental Management Association, Fort McMurray

  • Alberta Environment and Parks (2014) Airdata. http://airdata.alberta.ca/aepContent/Reports/DataReports.aspx. Accessed 14 Jan 2015

  • Alberta Environment and Water (2012) Best management practices for conservation of reclamation materials in the mineable oil Sands region of Alberta. Best Management Practices Task Group of the Reclamation Working Group of the Cumulative Environmental Management Association, Fort McMurray

  • Ballard TM, Carter RE (1986) Evaluating forest stand nutrient status. Land Manage Report No. 20. Ministry of Forests, Victoria

  • Barber SA, Silberbush M (1984) Plant root morphology and nutrient uptake. In: Barber SA, Bouldin DR (eds) Roots, nutrient and water influx, and plant growth. Amer Soc Agron Spec Publ No. 49, Madison, pp 65–87

  • Beckingham JD, Archibald JH (1996) Field guide to ecosites of northern Alberta. Natural Resources Canada, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton

    Google Scholar 

  • Boese CD (2003) The design and installation of a field instrumentation program for the evaluation of soil-atmosphere water fluxes in a vegetated cover over saline/sodic shale overburden. Dissertation, University of Saskatchewan

  • Boone RD (1992) Influence of sampling date and substrate on nitrogen mineralization: comparison of laboratory-incubation and buried-bag methods for two Massachusetts forest soils. Can J For Res 22:1895–1900

    Google Scholar 

  • Campbell EE, Paustian K (2015) Current developments in soil organic matter modeling and the expansion of model applications: a review. Environ Res Lett 10:1–36

    Google Scholar 

  • Carmosini N, Devito KJ, Prepas EE (2003) Net nitrogen mineralization and nitrification in trembling aspen forest soil on the Boreal Plain. Can J For Res 33:2262–2268

    Google Scholar 

  • CEMA (2006) Land capability classification system for forest ecosystems in the oil sands, 3rd edn. A document prepared for Alberta Environment by the Cumulative Environmental Management Association, Edmonton

  • Chang S, Yan E, Hu Y (2010) Soil nitrogen indicators for land reclamation policy development for forest ecosystems in the oil sands region of Alberta. Report submitted to the Cumulative Environmental Management Association, Fort McMurray, AB

  • Cole DW, Rapp M (1981) Elemental cycling in forest ecosystem. In: Reichle DE (ed) Dynamic properties of forest ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, London, pp 341–409

    Google Scholar 

  • Das Gupta S (2015) Spatial variability in disturbed boreal ecosystems: aboveground and belowground controls. Dissertation, University of Alberta

  • De Vries W, Solberg S, Dobbertin M, Sterba H, Laubhann D, van Oijen M, Evans C, Gundersen P, Kros J, Wamelink GWW, Reinds GJ, Sutton MA (2009) The impact of nitrogen deposition on carbon sequestration by European forests and heathlands. For Ecol Manag 258:1814–1823

    Google Scholar 

  • Devito KJ, Westbrook CJ, Schiff SL (1999) Nitrogen mineralization and nitrification in upland and peatland forest soils in two Canadian Shield catchments. Can J For Res 29:1793–1804

    Google Scholar 

  • Drozdowksi B, Bauman L, Underwood A, Faught B (2014) Carbon dynamics in reclaimed and natural landscapes at the operations of Syncrude Canada Ltd. Report prepared for Syncrude Canada Ltd. Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures, Edmonton

  • Duan M, Chang SX (2015) Responses of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and white spruce (Picea glauca) to fertilization in some reconstructed boreal forest soils in the oil sands region. Ecol Eng 84:354–361

    Google Scholar 

  • Duan M, House J, Chang SX (2015) Limiting factors for lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and white spruce (Picea glauca) growth differ in some reconstructed sites in the Athabasca oil sands region. Ecol Eng 75:323–331

    Google Scholar 

  • Elshorbagy A, Barbour SL (2007) A probabilistic approach for design and hydrologic performance assessment of reconstructed watersheds. J Geotech Geoenviron Eng 133:1110–1118

    Google Scholar 

  • Elshorbagy A, Jutla A, Barbour SL, Kells J (2005) System dynamics approach to assess the sustainability of reclamation of disturbed watersheds. Can J Civ Eng 32:144–158

    Google Scholar 

  • Elshorbagy A, Barbour SL, Qualizza C (2006) Multi-criterion decision making approach to assess the performance of reconstructed watersheds. In: Castelletti A, Sessa RS (eds) Topics on system analysis and integrated water resource management. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 257–269

    Google Scholar 

  • Environment Canada (2014) Canadian Climate Normals 1981–2010. http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?stnID=2519&lang=e&StationName=fortmcmurray&SearchType=Contains&stnNameSubmit=go&dCode=1&dispBack=1. Accessed 10 Aug 2014

  • Federer CA (1983) Nitrogen mineralization and nitrification:depth variation in four New England forest soils. Soil Sci Soc Am J 47:1008–1014

    Google Scholar 

  • Finzi AC, Norby RJ, Calfapietra C, Gallet-Budynek A, Gielen B, Holmes WE, Hoosbeek MR, Iversen CM, Jackson RB, Kubiske ME, Ledford J, Liberloo M, Oren R, Polle A, Pritchard S, Zak DR, Schlesinger WH, Ceulemans R (2007) Increases in nitrogen uptake rather than nitrogen-use efficiency support higher rates of temperate forest productivity under elevated CO2. PNAS 104:14014–14019

    Google Scholar 

  • Fung MYP, Macyk TM (2000) Reclamation of oil sands mining areas. In: Barnhisel RI, Darmody RG, Daniels WL (eds) Reclamation of drastically disturbed lands. Agron Monograph 41. ASA, CSSA and SSSA, Madison, pp 755–774

    Google Scholar 

  • Garrah K, Gulyas G, Straker J, Thrower J (2013) South Bison Hill research synthesis – vegetation overstory response to reclamation cover depth. Report prepared for Syncrude Canada Ltd. Integral Ecology Group Ltd, Victoria

  • Goodale CL, Apps M, Birdsey R, Field C, Heath L, Houghton R, Jenkins J, Kohlmaier G, Kurz W, Liu S, Nabuurs G, Nilsson S, Shvidenko A (2002) Forest carbon sinks in the northern hemisphere. Ecol Appl 12:891–899

    Google Scholar 

  • Gower ST, Krankina ON, Olson RJ, Apps MJ, Linder S, Wang C (2001) Net primary production and carbon allocation patterns of boreal forest ecosystems. Ecol Appl 11:1395–1411

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF (1993) Simulation model of soil compaction and root growth. I. Model development. Plant Soil 150:1–14

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF (1995) Salinity, water use and yield of maize: testing of the mathematical model ecosys. Plant Soil 172:309–322

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF (1998) Simulation in ecosys of root growth response to contrasting soil water and nitrogen. Ecol Model 107(2):237–264

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF (2001) A review of the Canadian ecosystem model ecosys. In: Shaffer M (ed) Modeling carbon and nitrogen dynamics for soil management. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 173–264

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF (2013) Modelling changes in nitrogen cycling to sustain increases in forest productivity under elevated atmospheric CO2 and contrasting site conditions. Biogeoscience 10:7703–7721

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF (2014) Nitrogen mineralization drives the response of forest productivity to soil warming: modelling in ecosys vs. measurements from the Harvard soil heating experiment. Ecol Model 288:38–46

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF (2015) Ecosystem CO2 and CH4 exchange in a mixed tundra and a fen within a hydrologically diverse Arctic landscape: 2. Modeled impacts of climate change. J Geophys Res Biogeosci 120:1388–1406

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF, Nalder IA (2000) Climate change effects on net carbon exchange of a boreal aspen-hazelnut forest: estimates from the ecosystem model ecosys. Glob Change Biol 6:183–200

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF, Nyborg M, Laidlaw J (1993) Evolution of nitrous oxide from soil: II. Experimental results and model testing. Soil Sci 156:266–277

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF, Black TA, den Hartog G, Berry JA, Neumann HH, Blanken PD, Yang PC, Russell C, Nalder IA (1999) Diurnal and annual exchanges of mass and energy between an aspen-hazelnut forest and the atmosphere: testing the mathematical model Ecosys with data from the BOREAS experiment. J Geophys Res 104:27699–27717

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant CD, Ward SC, Morley SC (2007a) Return of ecosystem function to restored bauxite mines in Western Australia. Restor Ecol 15:94–103

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF, Arkebauer TJ, Dobermann A, Hubbard KG, Schimelfenig TT, Suyker AE, Verma SB, Walters DT (2007b) Net biome productivity of irrigated and rainfed maize–soybean rotations: modeling vs. measurements. Agron J 99:1404–1423

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF, Black TA, Humphreys E, Morgenstern K (2007c) Changes in net ecosystem productivity with forest age following clearcutting of a coastal Douglas-fir forest: testing a mathematical model with eddy covariance measurements along a forest chronosequence. Tree Physiol 27(1):115–131

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF, Barr AG, Black TA, Margolis HA, McCaughey JH, Trofymow JA (2010) Net ecosystem productivity of temperate and boreal forests after clearcutting—a Fluxnet-Canada synthesis. Tellus B 62:475–496

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF, Baldocchi DD, Ma S (2012) Ecological controls on net ecosystem productivity of a seasonally dry annual grassland under current and future climates: Modelling with ecosys. Agric For Meteorol 152:189–200

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant RF, Dyck M, Puurveen C (2020) Nitrogen and phosphorus control carbon sequestration in agricultural ecosystems: modelling carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus balances at the Breton Plots with ecosys under historical and future climates. Can J Soil Sci. https://doi.org/10.1139/CJSS-2019-0132

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hansen EA (1994) A guide for determining when to fertilize hybrid poplar plantations. Res Pap NC-319. U.S. Department of Agriculture, North Central Forest Experiment Station, St. Paul

  • Hemstock SS (2008) Plant productivity, soil microorganisms, and soil nitrogen cycling in peat amendments used for oil sands reclamation. Dissertation, University of Alberta

  • Hemstock SS, Quideau SA, Chanasyk DS (2010) Nitrogen availability from peat amendments used in boreal oil sands reclamation. Can J Soil Sci 90:165–175

    Google Scholar 

  • Hilderman JN (2011) Net percolation as a function of topographic variation in a reclamation cover over a saline-sodic overburden dump. Dissertation, University of Saskatchewan

  • Huang M, Barbour SL, Carey SK (2015) The impact of reclamation cover depth on the performance of reclaimed shale overburden at an oil sands mine in northern Alberta, Canada. Hydrol Process 29(12):2840–2854

    Google Scholar 

  • Jerabkova L, Prescott CE, Kishchuk BE (2006) Nitrogen availability in soil and forest floor of contrasting types of boreal mixedwood forests. Can J For Res 36:112–122

    Google Scholar 

  • Jones DL, Magthab EA, Gleeson DB, Hill PW, Sánchez-Rodríguez AR, Roberts P, Ge T, Murphy DV (2018) Microbial competition for nitrogen and carbon is as intense in the subsoil as in the topsoil. Soil Biol Biochem 117:72–82

    Google Scholar 

  • Kaye JP, Hart SC (1997) Competition for nitrogen between plants and soil microorganisms. Trends Ecol Evol 12:139–143

    Google Scholar 

  • Kelln C, Barbour L, Qualizza C (2007) Preferential flow in a reclamation cover: hydrological and geochemical response. Can J Soil Sci 133(10):1277–1289

    Google Scholar 

  • Kessler S, Barbour SL, van Rees KC, Dobchuk BS (2010) Salinization of soil over saline-sodic overburden from the oil sands in Alberta. Can J Soil Sci 90:637–647

    Google Scholar 

  • Kimball JS, Zhao M, McDonald KC, Running SW (2006) Satellite remote sensing of terrestrial net primary production for the pan-arctic basin and Alaska. Mitig Adapt Strat Glob Change 11(4):783–804

    Google Scholar 

  • Kronzucker HJ, Siddiqi MY, Glass ADM (1997) Conifer root discrimination against soil nitrate and the ecology of forest succession. Nature 385:59–61

    Google Scholar 

  • Kurz WA, Shaw CH, Boisvenue C, Stinson G, Metsaranta J, Leckie D, Dyk A, Smyth C, Neilson ET (2013) Carbon in Canada’s boreal forest—a synthesis. Environ Rev 21:260–292

    Google Scholar 

  • Kwak J-H, Chang SX, Naeth MA, Schaaf W (2015) Coarse woody debris extract decreases nitrogen availability in two reclaimed oil sands soils in Canada. Ecol Eng 84:13–21

    Google Scholar 

  • Lambers H, Poorter H (1992) Inherent variation in growth rate between higher plants: a search for physiological causes and ecological consequences. Adv Ecol Res 23:187–261

    Google Scholar 

  • Lanoue AVL (2003) Phosphorus content and accumulation of carbon and nitrogen in boreal forest soils. Dissertation, University of Alberta

  • Macdonald SE, Landhäusser SM, Skousen J, Franklin J, Frouz J, Hall S, Jacobs DF, Quideau S (2015) Forest restoration following surface mining disturbance: challenges and solutions. New For 46:703–732

    Google Scholar 

  • MacKenzie MD, Quideau SA (2010) Microbial community structure and nutrient availability in oil sands reclaimed boreal soils. Appl Soil Ecol 44:32–41

    Google Scholar 

  • MacKenzie MD, Quideau SA (2012) Laboratory-based nitrogen mineralization and biogeochemistry of two soils used in oil sands reclamation. Can J Soil Sci 92:131–142

    Google Scholar 

  • Macyk TM (1999) Soil monitoring at the 30 dump overburden area. Report prepared for Syncrude Canada Ltd. Alberta Research Council Inc., Edmonton

  • Mahendrappa MK, Salonius PO (1982) Nutrient dynamics and growth response in a fertilized black spruce stand. Soil Sci Soc Am J 46:127–133

    Google Scholar 

  • McMillian R, Quideau SA, MacKenzie MD, Biryukova O (2007) Nitrogen mineralization and microbial activity in oil sands reclaimed boreal forest soils. J Environ Qual 36:1470–1478

    Google Scholar 

  • Meiers G (2002) The use of field measurements of hydraulic conductivity to characterize the performance of reclamation covers with time. Dissertation, University of Saskatchewan

  • Mekonnen ZA, William Riley J, Grant RF (2018) Accelerated nutrient cycling and increased light competition will lead to 21st century shrub expansion in North American Arctic tundra. J Geophys Res Biogeosci 123:1683–1701

    Google Scholar 

  • Merlin M, Landhäusser SL (2019) Seasonal patterns of water uptake in Populus tremuloides and Picea glauca on a boreal reclamation site is species specific and modulated by capping soil depth and slope position. Plant Soil 439:487–504. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-04029-6

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mezbahuddin M, Grant RF, Hirano T (2014) Modelling effects of seasonal variation in water table depth on net ecosystem CO2 exchange of a tropical peatland. Biogeoscience 11:577–599

    Google Scholar 

  • Michelson IH, Ingvarsson PK, Robinson KM, Edlund E, Eriksson ME, Nilsson O, Jansson S (2018) Autumn senescence in aspen is not triggered by day length. Physiol Plant 162:123–134

    Google Scholar 

  • Min X, Siddiqi MY, Guy RD, Glass ADM, Kronzucker HJ (2000) A comparative kinetic analysis of nitrate and ammonium influx in two early-successional tree species of temperate and boreal forest ecosystems. Plant Cell Environ 23:321–328

    Google Scholar 

  • Nadelhoffer KJ, Aber JD, Melillo JM (1985) Fine roots, net primary production, and soil nitrogen availability: a new hypothesis. Ecology 66(4):1377–1390

    Google Scholar 

  • Naeth MA, Wilkinson SR, Mackenzie DD, Archibald HA, Powter CB (2013) Potential of LFH Mineral Soil Mixes for Land Reclamation in Alberta. OSRIN Report No. TR-35. Oil Sands Research and Information Network, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

  • Nelson DW, Sommers LE (1996) Total carbon, organic carbon, and organic matter. In: Sparks DL et al (eds) Methods of soil analysis, Part 3. SSSA Book Series, Madison, pp 961–1010

  • Nienstaedt H, Zasada JC (1990) Picea glauca (Moench) Voss: white spruce. In: Burns RM, Honkala BH (eds) Silvics of North America: vol 1. Conifers. USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC, pp 204–226

    Google Scholar 

  • Nitschke CR, Waeber PO, Klaassen JW, Dordel J, Innes JL, Aponte C (2017) Nutrient uptake and use efficiency in co-occurring plants along a disturbance and nutrient availability gradient in the boreal forests of the southwest Yukon, Canada. J Veg Sci 28:69–81

    Google Scholar 

  • O’Kane Consultants Inc (2013) Instrumented watershed monitoring program monitoring data summary report for the period January 2012 to December 2012. Report No. 690/01–46. Prepared for Syncrude Canada Ltd., Fort McMurray, AB

  • O’Kane Consultants Inc (2014) Instrumented watershed monitoring program monitoring data summary report for the period January 2013 to December 2013. Report No. 690/01–53. Prepared for Syncrude Canada Ltd., Fort McMurray, AB

  • Pastor J (1987) Successional changes in nitrogen availability as a potential factor contributing to spruce declines in boreal North America. Can J For Res 17:1394–1400

    Google Scholar 

  • Persson T, Wiren A (1995) Nitrogen mineralization and potential nitrification at different depths in acidic forest soils. Plant Soil 168:55–65

    Google Scholar 

  • Quideau SA, Norris CE, Rees F, Dyck M, Samadi N, Oh S-W (2017) Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus release from peat and forest floor-based cover soils used during oil sands reclamation. Can J Soil Sci 97:757–768

    Google Scholar 

  • Rowland S, Prescott CE, Grayston SJ, Quideau SA, Bradfield GE (2009) Recreating a functioning forest soil in reclaimed oil sands in northern Alberta: An approach for measuring success in ecological restoration. J Environ Qual 38:1580–1590

    Google Scholar 

  • Schuwirth N, Borgwardt F, Domisch S, Friedrichs M, Kattwinkel M, Kneis D, Kuemmerlen M, Langhans SD, Martínez-López J, Vermeiren P (2019) How to make ecological models useful for environmental management? Ecol Model 411:108784

    Google Scholar 

  • Shenoy A, Kielland K, Johnstone JF (2013) Effects of fire severity on plant nutrient uptake reinforce alternate pathways of succession in boreal forests. Plant Ecol 214:587–596

    Google Scholar 

  • Sobek AA, Skousen JG, Fisher SE (2000) Chemical and physical properties of overburdens and minesoils. In: Barnhisel RI, Darmody RG, Daniels WL (eds) Reclamation of drastically disturbed lands. Agron Monogr 41. ASA, CSSA, and SSSA, Madison, pp 77–104

    Google Scholar 

  • Stinson G, Kurz WA, Smyth CE, Neilson ET, Dymond CC, Metsaranta JM, Boisvenue C, Rampley GJ, Li Q, White TM, Blain D (2011) An inventory-based analysis of Canada’s managed forest carbon dynamics, 1990 to 2008. Glob Change Biol 17(6):2227–2244

    Google Scholar 

  • Stottlemeyer R, Toczydlowski D (1999) Nitrogen mineralization in a mature boreal forest, Isle Royale, Michigan. J Environ Qual 28:709–720

    Google Scholar 

  • Struecker J, Joergensen RG (2015) Microorganisms and their substrate utilization patterns in topsoil and subsoil layers of two silt loams, differing in soil organic C accumulation due to colluvial processes. Soil Biol Biochem 91:310–317

    Google Scholar 

  • Todd MCL, Adams MA, Grierson PF (2000) Mineralisation of nitrogen in a chronosequence of rehabilitated bauxite mines. Aust J Soil Res 38:435–451

    Google Scholar 

  • Van Cleve K, Oliver L, Schlentner R, Viereck LA, Dyrness CT (1983) Productivity and nutrient cycling in taiga forest ecosystems. Can J For Res 13:747–766

    Google Scholar 

  • Wang GG, Klinka K (1997) White spruce foliar nutrient concentrations in relation to tree growth and soil nutrient amounts. For Ecol Mgmt 98:89–99

    Google Scholar 

  • Welegedara NPY, Grant RF, Quideau SA, Landhäusser SM, Merlin M, Lloret E (2019) Modelling plant water relations and net primary productivity as affected by reclamation cover depth in reclaimed forestlands of Northern Alberta. Plant Soil 446(1):627–654. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-04363-9

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yarmuch M (2003) Measurement of soil physical parameters to evaluate soil structure quality in reclaimed oil sands soils, Alberta, Canada. Dissertation. University of Alberta

Download references

Acknowledgements

Funding for the study was provided by the Land Reclamation International Graduate School (LRIGS) at the University of Alberta, the NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program, and Canadian Oil Sands Network for Research and Development (CONRAD). Computational facilities for the modelling project were provided by Compute Canada and WestGrid high-performance computing infrastructure, and the University of Alberta. The great support in providing field data by Syncrude Canada limited is very much appreciated and special thanks goes to Marty Yarmuch and Bonnie Drozdowski for providing support to get field data. We would like to acknowledge Emily Lloret, Cassandra McKenzie, Jela Burkus, Luke Donnan, Kelti Eaton, Melanie Luong for field data acquisition and laboratory assistance.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, 442 Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E3, Canada

    Nilusha P. Y. Welegedara, Robert F. Grant, Sylvie A. Quideau & Sanatan Das Gupta

Authors
  1. Nilusha P. Y. Welegedara
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Robert F. Grant
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Sylvie A. Quideau
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Sanatan Das Gupta
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Nilusha P. Y. Welegedara.

Additional information

Responsible Editor: Kate Lajtha

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Electronic supplementary material

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

Supplementary file1 (DOCX 362 kb)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Welegedara, N.P.Y., Grant, R.F., Quideau, S.A. et al. Modelling nitrogen mineralization and plant nitrogen uptake as affected by reclamation cover depth in reclaimed upland forestlands of Northern Alberta. Biogeochemistry 149, 293–315 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-020-00676-5

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-020-00676-5

Keywords

Search

Navigation