Nutrient losses over four million years of tropical forest development

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2231-2255

  Hedin, Lars O ^a   Vitousek, Peter M ^b   Matson, Pamela A ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidity, soil waters; Base cations; Calcium; Ecosystem evolution over geologic time; Forest ecosystems and biogeochemical processes; Hawaiian montane tropical forests; Nitrogen and nitrogen oxide; Nutrient cycles and nutrient limitations; Phosphorus; Silicon

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT LOSS; TROPICAL FOREST; WEATHERING;

HAWAIIA;

EID: 0345016321     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-4066     Document Type: Review

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