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Road and site characteristics that influence road salt distribution and damage to roadside aspen trees

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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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  1. Dept. of Biology, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, N.M., USA

    J. R. Piatt & Paul D. Krause

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Piatt, J.R., Krause, P.D. Road and site characteristics that influence road salt distribution and damage to roadside aspen trees. Water Air Soil Pollut 3, 301–304 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00226459

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