Plant-mediated controls on nutrient cycling in temperate fens and bogs

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2170-2181

  Aerts, R ^a,b   Verhoeven, J T A ^a   Whigham, D F ^a,c  

^a Dept of Plant Ecol and Evol Biol ^*  (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bogs; Climate control of nutrient cycling; Decomposition; Evergreen; Fens; Leaf life span; Litter chemistry effects on decomposition; Mineralization; Nutrient cycling; Nutrient resorption; Nutrient use efficiency; Sphagnum; Temperate

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; GROWTH FORM; MIRE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

BRYOPHYTA; SPHAGNUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0032823278     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[2170:PMCONC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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