Some people ask why. Some ask Whynot. Today we celebrate the work of researcher Tim W. Whynot of the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests,in Halifax:
“Repeated Fertilization Effects on Nitrogen Fluxes Measured by Sequential Coring,” Tim W. Whynot and Gordon F. Weetman, Soil Sci Soc Am J 55:1101-1111 (1991). The authors report: “To determine if four repeated nitrogen fertilizations at four rates in a young lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta [Dougl.] var. latifolia) stand had changed soil nitrogen -mineralization rates, and to compare field and laboratory techniques for measuring nitrogen mineralization, the results of in situ sequential coring and anaerobic incubation were compared.”