Production and resource use efficiencies in N- and P-limited tropical forests: A comparison of responses to long-term fertilization

Ecosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 646-657

  Harrington, Robin A ^a   Fownes, James H ^a   Vitousek, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaf area index; Leaf lifespan; Litterfall; Metrosideros polymorpha; Net primary productivity; Nitrogen limitation; Nutrient use efficiency; Phosphorous limitation; Radiation conversion efficiency

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER APPLICATION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RESOURCE USE; TROPICAL FOREST;

METROSIDEROS; METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA;

EID: 0035657280     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-001-0034-z     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Nutrient use efficiency in evergreen and deciduous species from heathlands
2. Water supply regulates structure, productivity, and water use efficiency of Acacia koa forest in Hawaii
3. Genetic differentiation of intrinsic water-use efficiency in the Hawaiian native Acacia koa
4. Nutrient dynamics on a precipitation gradient in Hawaii
5. Nitrogen-use efficiency: A biologically meaningful definition?
6. The ecology of leaf life spans
7. The mineral nutrition of wild plants
8. Age and petrology of alkalic postshield and rejuvenated-stage lava from Kauai, Hawaii
9. Regulation of leaf lifespan and nutrient-use efficiency of Metrosideros polymorpha trees at two extremes of a long chronosequence in Hawaii
10. Fertilizer induced morphological and chemical responses of a quaking aspen stand in interior Alaska
11. Changes in soil phosphorus fractions and ecosystem dynamics across a long chronosequence in Hawaii
12. The photosynthetic nitrogen relationship in wild plants
13. Effects of diversity on productivity: Quantitative distribution of traits
14. Amelioration, revegetation, and subsequent soil formation in denuded bauxitic materials
15. Radiation interception and growth of planted and coppice stands of four fast-growing tropical trees
16. Forest growth along a rainfall gradient in Hawaii: Acacia koa stand structure, productivity, foliar nutrients, and water- and nutrient-use efficiencies
17. Effects of leaf aggregation in a broad-leaf canopy on estimates of leaf area index by the gapfraction method
18. Forest productivity and efficiency of resource use across a chronosequence of tropical montane soils
19. Phosphorus limitation of forest leaf area and net primary production on a highly weathered soil
20. Hurricane damage to Hawaiian forest: Nutrient supply rate affects resistance and resilience
21. Nutrient resorption efficiency and the response to phosphorus fertilization in the desert shrub Larrea tridentata (DC) Cov
22. Effect of nitrogen supply on nutrients in litter fall and crown leaching in a stand of Corsican pine
23. Effect of nitrogen supply on net primary production in Corican pine
24. The effects of nitrogen and phosphorus availability on fine root dynamics in Hawaiian montane forests
25. Aboveground production and N and P cycling along a nitrogen mineralization gradient on Blackhawk Island, Wisconsin
26. Both nitrogen and phosphorus limit plant production on young Hawaiian lava flows
27. Nitrogen mineralization and productivity in 50 hardwood and conifer stands on diverse soils
28. Role of phosphorus and nitrogen in photosynthetic and whole plant carbon gain and nutrient use efficiency in eastern white pine
29. From tropics to tundra: Global convergence in plant functioning
30. Nutrient dynamics and trace gas flux during ecosystem development in Hawaiian montane rainforests
31. Nutrient budgets of marsh plants: Efficiency concepts and relation to availability
32. Keys to soil taxonomy
33. Ecological studies of Hawaiian Metrosideros in a successional context
34. Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization of Jamaican montane forest tress
35. Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization effects on Venezuelan montane forest trunk growth and litterfall
36. Effects of soil nutrient availability on investment in acquisition of N and P in Hawaiian rain forests
37. Potential ecosystem-level effects of genetic variation among populations of Metrosideros polymorpha from a soil fertility gradient in Hawaii
38. Nutrient limitation and soil development: Experimental tests of biogeochemistry
39. Within-system element cycles, input-output budgets, and nutrient limitation
40. Nitrogen limitation on land and in the sea: How can it occur?
41. Foliar nutrients during long-term soil development in Hawaiian montane rain forest
42. Nutrient limitations to plant growth during primary succession in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
43. Growth and fertilization responses of Hawaiian tree ferns
44. The fate of phosphorus during pedogenesis
45. PAR absorption and its relation to aboveground dry matter production of Sitka spruce