Food for the soil: Soils and the amount of salmon-derived nutrients in southeast Alaska, Natural Inquirer Monograph

Jessica Nickelsen; Barbara McDonald

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Food for the soil: Soils and the amount of salmon-derived nutrients in southeast Alaska, Natural Inquirer Monograph

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Jessica Nickelsen, Barbara McDonald

Year:

2013

Type:

Natural Inquirer

Station:

Washington Office

Source:

USDA-Forest Service science education journal for Pre-K through Grade 12

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Abstract

Salmon-derived nutrients come from lots of spawning salmon. The nutrients are distributed through many different ways. The scientist in this study wanted to find out how the role of these nutrients may change in a certain type of landform. Geomorphology is the study of landforms and the processes that shape these landforms.

Keywords

alluvial soil, auger survey, carcass, continental, geomorphology, isotope, sustain, watershed, Isotope, mean, organic, piscivore, spawn

Citation

Nickelsen, J., McDonald, B. 2013. Food for the soil: Soils and the amount of salmon-derived nutrients in southeast Alaska, Natural Inquirer Monograph Series 6, FS-1005. Adapted from D’Amore, D.V., Bonzey, N.S., Berkowitz, J., Ruegg, Janine, and Bridgeham, S. 2011. Holocene soil-geomorphic surfaces influence the role of salmon-derived nutrients in coastal temperate rainforests of southeast Alaska. Geomorphology 126: 377-386.