Raciti, S.M., Groffman, P.M., Fahey, T.J. 2008. Nitrogen Retention in Urban Lawns and Forests. Ecological Applications. Ecological Society of America, Ithaca, NY. Volume 18, Number 7. Pages 1615-1626

development, forest, turfgrass, urban, watershed, Lawns

A nitrogen pulse-labeling experiment was performed on lawn and forest plots in the Baltimore, MD metropolitan area to test the hypothesis that lawns are a net sink for atmospheric-N deposition and to compare and contrast mechanisms of N retention in these vegetation types.