Nitrogen-15 natural abundance in a montane cloud forest canopy as an indicator of nitrogen cycling and epiphyte nutrition

Oecologia

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 350-355

  Hietz, Peter ^a   Wanek, Wolfgang ^b   Wania, Rita ^b   Nadkarni, Nalini M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy soil; Epiphylls; Monteverde; Nutrient dynamics; Tropical montane forest

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; EPIPHYTE; FOREST CANOPY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0036934131     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0896-6     Document Type: Article

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