@mastersthesis {51838,
	title = {The biogeochemistry of phosphorous cycling and phosphorous availability in a desert ecosystem},
	year = {1986},
	note = {//NMSU//LTER I//},
	month = {1986},
	school = {Duke University},
	type = {Ph.D. Dissertation},
	address = {Durham, North Carolina},
	abstract = {The geochemistry of the weathering, landscape movement, chemical transformations, and the plant availability of phosphorus was examined in a chronosequence of soils developed from quartz monzonite alluvium in southern New Mexico.  All soils contained pedogenic carbonates in upper horizons with caliche layers at depth.  Total P in the soil profile decreased with increasing soil age, and was removed from the ecosystem as readily as the most easily leachable base cations.  Although Ca-bound forms of P decreased with increasing soil age, Ca-P remained the single largest fraction of total P in all soils.},
	keywords = {biogeochemistry, calcium carbonate, chronosequence, dissertation, dissertations, Larrea, calcium carbonate, Larrea, phosphorous, Parthenium, calcium carbonate, Parthenium, phosphorous, phosphorous cycling, seedling response, calcium carbonate, theses, thesis},
	author = {Kate Lajtha}
}
