Persistence of rock-derived nutrients in the wet tropical forests of La Selva, Costa Rica

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 594-602

  Porder, Stephen ^a   Clark, Deborah A ^b   Vitousek, Peter M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bedrock weathering; Costa Rica; Erosion; Foliar nutrients; Hawaii; La Selva; Metrosideros polymorpha; Nutrient derivation; Oxisols; Pentaclethra macroloba; Strontium; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

STRONTIUM;

BEDROCK; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; OXISOL; RAINFOREST; SOIL EROSION; SOIL NUTRIENT; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; GEOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT; SEDIMENT; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

COSTA RICA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; PLANTS; SOIL; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HEREDIA; KAUAI; LA SELVA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA; PENTACLETHRA MACROLOBA;

EID: 33646159290     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-0394     Document Type: Article

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