Response of water and nutrient fluxes to improvement fellings in a tropical montane forest in Ecuador

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1292-1304

  Wilcke, Wolfgang ^a   Günter, Sven ^b   Alt, Fabian ^a   Geißler, Christiane ^a   Boy, Jens ^a   Knuth, Jana ^a   Oelmann, Yvonne ^a   Weber, Michael ^b   Valarezo, Carlos ^c   Mosandl, Reinhard ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Catchment; Montane forest; Natural forest management; Nutrients; Water cycle

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CALCIUM; CATCHMENTS; DEFORESTATION; DISSOLUTION; FORESTRY; LEACHING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RUNOFF; SEA LEVEL; SODIUM; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER LEVELS;

CATCHMENT; CATCHMENT SCALES; DRY DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FLUXES; ECUADOR; IN-SITU; LEACHATE; MINERAL SOILS; MONTANE FOREST; NATURAL FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATURAL FORESTS; NUTRIENT BUDGETS; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT FLUXES; SOIL SOLUTIONS; SOIL WATER FLUXES; WATER CYCLE; WATER FLUXES;

NUTRIENTS;

CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT CYCLING; RAINFALL; STEMFLOW; STREAMFLOW; VEGETATION;

CALCIUM; COST CONTROL; DEFORESTATION; DISSOLVING; FELLING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; LEACHING; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUTRIENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RUNOFF; SODIUM; SOIL ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; WATER;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 58749111794     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.11.036     Document Type: Article

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