Road and site characteristics that influence road salt distribution and damage to roadside aspen trees |
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Authors: | J R Piatt Paul D Krause |
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Institution: | 1. Dept. of Biology, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, N.M., USA
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Abstract: | During the summer of 1972 extensive necrosis of aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) leaves appeared on the downhill side of a road paved in August 1971 to improve access to the Santa Fe Ski Basin, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. A Forest Service investigation showed that chloride concentrations in leaf tissue were significantly correlated with leaf damage. Our study of soil chloride distribution as influenced by physiographic and road features shows a statistically significant relationship between these features and damage to road side aspen. |
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