Dennis M. Gray
Rutgers University
10 Papers
122 Citations
Dennis M. Gray is an academic researcher from Rutgers University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pine barrens & Pinus rigida. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 10 publications.
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Papers
Mineralization of forest litter nutrients by heat and combustion
Dennis M. Gray,John Dighton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, temperature dependent mineralization dynamics during fire of litter species characteristic of the New Jersey pine barrens was determined, and the authors identified patterns of nutrient mineralization characteristic of specific temperatures, some of which were common to all three litter species and others unique to individual species.
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Impacts of atmospheric deposition on New Jersey pine barrens forest soils and communities of ectomycorrhizae
TL;DR: An approach to a critical loading of N for these oligotrophic soils, where N supply exceeds seedling N demand is indicated, in treeless cores N supply appears to exceed microbial immobilization potential even when no exogenous N is applied.
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Soil microbial community response to nitrogen enrichment in two scrub oak forests
Jennifer Adams Krumins,John Dighton,Dennis M. Gray,Rima B. Franklin,Peter J. Morin,Michael S. Roberts +5 more
TL;DR: The results imply that bacterial communities may be more sensitive than fungi to intense pulses of nitrogen in sandy soils, and that FL consistently supported more bacterial and fungal biomass than NJ.
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Burning, watering, litter quality and time effects on N, P, and K uptake by pitch pine (Pinus rigida) seedlings in a greenhouse study
TL;DR: In this paper, a greenhouse study was conducted to determine factors that may contribute to nutrient release and to link this to availability of nutrients to plants following a fire in the pine barrens, a 3×2×2-2-3 factorial with three types of litter, high and low watering regime, burned and unburned litter, and three sample dates.
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The influence of contrasting ground cover vegetation on soil properties in the NJ pine barrens
TL;DR: The results suggest that the subtle physical and chemical property differences between each of the communities may be due to a biogenic origin.
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