Fine-root biomass in three successional stages of an Andean cloud forest in Colombia

Biotropica

Volumn 28, Issue 4 A, 1996, Pages 728-736

  Cavelier, Jaime ^a   Estevez, Jaime ^a   Arjona, Beatrix ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b NONE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Basal area; Belowground; Cloud forest; Colombia; Fine roots; Root biomass; Succession

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLOUD FOREST; FINE ROOT;

COLOMBIA, LA PLANADA; SOUTH AMERICA, ANDES;

EID: 0030318084     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2389059     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. BECKER, P., P. E. RABENOLD, J. R. INDOL, AND A. P. SMITH. 1988. Water potential gradiens for gaps and slopes in a Panamanian tropical moist forest's dry season. J. Trop. Ecol. 4: 173-184.
2. BERISH, C. W. 1982. Root biomass and surface area in three successional tropical forests. Can. J. For. Res. 12: 699-704.
3. _, AND J. J. EWEL. 1988. Root development in simple and complex tropical successional ecosystem. Plant Soil 106: 73-84.
4. BIRCH, H. F. 1958. The effect of soil drying on humus decomposition and nutrient availability. Plant Soil 10: 9-31.
5. _. 1964. Mineralization of plant nitrogen following alternate wet and dry conditions. Plant Soil 20: 43-49.
6. BROKAW, N. V., AND S. SCHEINER. 1989. Species composition in gaps and structure of a tropical forest. Ecology 70: 538-541.
7. BROWM, S., AND A. E. LUGO. 1990. Tropical secondary forests. J. Trop. Ecol. 6: 1-32.
8. CAVELIER, J. 1989. Root biomass, production and the effect of fertilization in two tropical rain forests. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.
9. _. 1992. Fine root biomass and soil properties in a semideciduous and lower montane rain forest in Panama. Plant Soil 142: 187-201.
10. _, AND G. GOLDSTEIN. 1989. Mist and fog interception in elfin cloud forest in Colombia and Venezuela. J. Trop. Ecol. 5: 309-372.
11. CHAZDON, R. L., AND N. FETCHER. 1984. Photosynthetic light environment in a lowland rain forest in Costa Rica. J. Ecol. 72: 553-564.
12. CLEEF, A. M., O. RANGEL, T. VAN DER HAMMEN, AND R. JARAMILLO. 1984. La vegetación de las selvas del transecto Buritica. In T. van der Hammen and P. M. Ruiz (Eds.). Studies on tropical Andean Ecosystems, Volume 2, La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia), pp. 267-395. J. Cramer, Berlin, Germany.
13. CONNELL, J. H. 1989. Some processes affecting the species composition in forest gaps. Ecology 70: 560-562.
14. DE LAS SALAS, G., AND M. M. BALLESTEROS. 1986. Tipos de comunidades forestales de la Roserva Natural La Planada, Nariño, Colombia. Fundación para la Educación Superior, Cali, Colombia.
15. DENSLOW, J. S. 1987. Tropical rain forest gaps and tree species diversity. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 18: 431-451.
16. EDWARDS, P. J., AND P. J. GRUBB. 1982. Studies of mineral cycling in a montane rain forest in New Guinea. IV. Soil characteristics and the division of mineral elements between the vegetation and soil. J. Ecol. 70: 649-666.
17. EWEL, J. J. 1971. Biomass changes in early tropical succession. Turrialba 21: 110-112.
18. _. 1975. Biomass of second growth tropical moist forest. In F. B. Golley, J. T. McGunnis, R. G. Clements, G. I. Child, and M. J. Duever (Eds.). Mineral cycling in a tropical moist forest ecosystem, pp. 143-150. University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia.
19. GALE, M. R., AND D. F. GRIGAL. 1987. Vertical distribution of northern tree species in relation to successional status. Can. J. For. Res. 17: 829-834.
20. GARWOOD, N. C., D. P. JANOS, AND N. V. L. BROKAW. 1979. Earthquake caused landslides: a major disturbance to tropical forest. Science 205: 997-999.
21. GENTRY, A. 1992. Diversity and floristic composition of Andean forests of Peru and adjacent countries: implications for their conservation. Memorias del Museo de Historia Natural, U.N.M.S.M. (Lima) 21: 11-29.
22. GILL, A. M. 1969. The ecology of an elfin forest in Puerto Rico. 5. Aerial roots. J. Arnold Arbor. Harv. Univ. 50: 197-209.
23. GRIER, C. C., K. A. VOGT, M. R. KEYES, AND R. L. EDMONDS. 1981. Biomass distribution and above- and below-ground production in young and mature Abies amabilis zone ecosystem of the Washington Cascades. Can. J. For. Res. 11: 155-167.
24. GRIMM, U., AND H. W. FASSBENDER. 1981. Cidos bioquímicos en un ecosistema forestal de los Andes occidentales de Venezuela. I. Inventario de las reservas orgánicas y minerales (N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Mn, Al, Na). Turrialba 31: 27-37.
25. GRUBB, P. J. 1977. Control of forest growth and distribution on wet tropical mountains: with special reference to mineral nutrition. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 8: 83-107.
26. GUARIGUATA, M. R. 1990. Landslide disturbance and forest regeneration in the upper Luquillo mountains of Puerto Rico. J. Ecol. 78: 814-832.
27. HEANEY, A., AND J. PROCTOR. 1989. Chemical elements in litter in forests on volcan Barva, Costa Rica. In J. Proctor (Ed.). Mineral nutrients in tropical forests and savannas, pp. 255-271. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Ltd., Oxford, England.
28. _, AND _. 1990. Preliminary studies on forest structure and florisuc on Volcan Barva, Costa Rica. J. Trop. Ecol. 6: 307-320.
29. IGAC. 1973. Suelos derivados de ceniza volcanica. Departamento de Nariño, Vol. IX, No. 2. Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi, Bogotá, Colombia.
30. _. 1977. Zonas de Vida o Formaciones Vegetales de Colombia. Memoria explicativa sobre el mapa ecológico. Vol. XIII, No. 11. Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi, Bogotá, Colombia.
31. KIMMINS, J. P., AND B. C. HAWKES. 1978. Distribution and chemistry of fine roots in a white spruce-subalpine fir stand in British Columbia: implications for management. Can. J. For. Res. 8: 265-279.
32. KLINGE, H. 1973. Root mass estimation in lowland tropical rain forest of Central Amazonia, Brazil. I. Fine root masses of a pale yellow latosol and a giant humus podzol. Trop. Ecol. 14: 29-38.
33. LUNDGREN, B. 1978. Soil condition and nutrient cycling under natural and plantation forests in Tanzanian highlands. Department of Soil Forest, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Reports in Forest Ecology and Forests Soils 31: 1-261.
34. LYFORD, W. H. 1969. The ecology of an elfin forest in Puerto Rico. 7. Soil, root and earthworm relationships. J. Arnold Arbor. Harv. Univ. 50: 210-224.
35. MARRS, R. H., J. PROCTOR, A. HEANEY, AND M. D. MOUNTFORD. 1988. Changes in soil nitrogen-mineralization and nitrification along an altitudinal transect in tropical rain forest in Costa Rica. J. Ecol. 76: 466-482.
36. MCCLAUGHERTY, C., J. D. ABER, AND J. M. MELILLO. 1982. The role of fine roots in the organic matter and nitrogen budgets of two forested ecosystems. Ecology 65: 1481-1490.
37. ODUM, H. T. 1970. Rain forest structure and mineral-cycling homeostasis. In H. T. Odum and R. F. Pigeon (Eds.). A tropical rain forest, pp. H3-53. U.S.A.E.C. Springfield, Virginia.
38. OVINGTON, J. D., AND J. S. OLSON. 1970. Biomass and chemical content of El Verde lower montane rain forest plants. In H. T. Odum and R. F. Pigeon (Eds.). A tropical rain forest, pp. H53-77. U.S.A.E.C., Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
39. PERSSON, H. A. 1978. Roots dynamics in a Scots pine stand in Central Sweden. Oikos 30: 508-519.
40. _. 1980. Spatial distribution of fine-root growth, mortality and decomposition in a young Scots pine stand in Central Sweden. Oikos 34: 77-87.
41. _. 1983. The distribution and productivity of fine roots in boreal forests. Plant Soil 71: 87-101.
42. RAICH, J. W. 1980. Fine roots regrow rapidly after forest felling Biotropica 12: 231-232.
43. ROLLET, B. 1984. Études sur unet forêt d'altitud des Andes Vénézuéliennes: La forêt de la Carbonera. Revue Bois et Forêts Destropiques 205: 3-23.
44. SAFFORD, L. O., AND S. BELL. 1972. Biomass of fine roots in a white spruce plantation. Can. J. For. Res. 2: 169-172.
45. SALDARRIAGA, J. G., D. C. WEST, AND M. L. THORP. 1986. Forest succession in the upper Rio Negro of Colombia and Venezuela. Environmental Sciences Division Publication No. 2694 (ORNL/TM-9712), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
46. SALO, J., AND M. RASANEN. 1989. Hierarchy of landscape patterns in western Amazon. In Holm-Nielsen, L. B. I. C. Nielsen, and H. Balslev. (Eds.). Tropical forests, pp. 35-45. Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, Florida.
47. SAMPER, C. 1992. Natural disturbance and plant establishment in an Andean cloud forest. Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
48. SANFORD, R. L. JR. 1985. Root ecology and successional Amazon forests. Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, California.
49. _. 1989a. Fine root biomass under the tropical forest light gap opening in Costa Rica. J. Trop. Ecol. 5: 251-256.
50. _. 1989b. Root system of three adjacent, old growth amazon forest and associated transition zones. J. Trop. For. Sci. 1: 268-279.
51. _. 1990. Fine root biomass under light gap openings in an Amazonian rain forest. Oecologia 83: 541-545.
52. SPIES, T., AND J. FRANKLIN. 1989. Gap characteristics and vegetation response in coniferous of the Pacific Northwest. Ecology 70: 543-545.
53. STARK, N. 1971. Nutrient cycling pathways and litter fungi. Bioscience 22: 355-360.
54. _, AND M. SPRATT. 1977. Root biomass and mineral shortage in rain forest oxisols near San Carlos de Rio Negro. Trop. Ecol. 18: 1-9.
55. TANNER, E. V. J. 1980. Litterfall in mountain rainforest of Jamaica and its relation climate. J. Ecol. 68: 833-848.
56. _. 1985. Jamaican montane forests: nutrient captal and cost of growth. J. Ecol. 73: 553-568.
57. UHL, C., AND C. F. JORDAN. 1984. Succession and nutrient dynamics following forest cutting and burning in Amazonia. Ecology 65: 1476-1490.
58. _, R. BUSCHBACHER, AND E. A. S. SERRAO. 1988b. Abandoned pastures in eastern Amazonian. I. Patterns of plant succession. J. Ecol. 73: 663-681.
59. _, K. E. CLARK, H. CLARK, AND P. MURPHY. 1981. Early plant succession after cutting and burning in the upper Rio Negro region of the Amazon basin. J. Ecol. 69: 631-649.
60. _, K. CLARK, N. DEZZEO, AND P. MARIQUINO. 1988a. Vegetation dynamics in Amazonian treefall gaps. Ecology 69: 751-763.
61. VENEKLAAS, E. J. 1991. Litterfall and nutrient fluxes in two montane tropical rain forests, Colombia. J. Trop. Ecol. 7: 319-336.
62. VITOUSEK, P. M. 1984. Litterfall, nutrient, cyding, and nutrient limitation in tropical forests. Ecology 65: 285-298.
63. _, AND J. S. DENSLOW. 1986. Nitrogen and phosphorus availability in treefall gaps in a lowland tropical rain forest. J. Ecol. 74: 1167-1178.
64. _, AND W. A. REINERS. 1975. Ecosystem succession and nutrient retention: a hypothesis. Bioscience 25: 376-381.
65. VOGT, K. A., R. L. EDMONDS, AND C. C. GRIER. 1981. Seasonal changes in biomass and vertical distribution of mycorrhizal and fibrous-textured conifer fine roots in 23- and 180-year-old subalpine Abies amabilis stands. Can. J. For. Res. 11: 223-229.
66. WEAVER, P. L., E. MEDINA, D. POOL, K. DUGGER, J. GONZALES-LIBOY, AND E. CUEVAS. 1986. Ecological observations in the dwarf doud forest of the Luquillo mountains in Puerto Rico. Biotropica 18: 79-85.
67. WILCZYNSKI, C. J., AND S. T. A. PICKETT. 1993. Fine root biomass within experimental canopy gaps: evidence for a below ground gap. J. Veg. Sci. 4: 571-574.
68. YIH, K., D. H. BOUCHER, J. H. VANDERMEER, AND N. ZAMORA. 1991. Recovery of the rain forest of Southeastern Nicaragua after destruction by Hurricane Joan. Biotropica 23: 106-113.
69. ZAR, J. H. 1984. Biostatistical Analyses. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersy.