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Biological nitrogen fixation in forest ecosystems: foundations and applications pp 173–212Cite as

Analysis of nitrogen fixation

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Unlike pastoral and cropping systems where the nitrogen fixing plants are normally managed and cropped, the agents of biological nitrogen fixation in forests are normally subordinate to the cropped system. Thus the primary management procedures in forest concern the forest crop and measurement of nitrogen fixation within a stand, whether managed or not, will be subject to the effects of the dominant species. While all field analysis is beset with methodological and fundamental errors and problems, these problems are enhanced in many forest systems because of the lack of homogeneity both in vegetation and environment. The lack of homogeneity increases when going from plantation to natural managed to virgin forests and leads to extreme temporal and spatial sampling problems.

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