Species-soil associations, disturbance, and nutrient cycling in an Australian tropical rainforest

Oecologia

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1047-1058

  Gleason, Sean Michael ^a   Read, Jennifer ^a   Ares, Adrian ^b   Metcalfe, Daniel J ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cyclone; Hurricane; Nutrient use efficiency; Soil specialisation; Tradeoff

Indexed keywords

CARBON; METAL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; SILICATE;

CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HURRICANE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; RAINFOREST; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SCHIST; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPECIALIZATION; TRADE-OFF; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BASALT; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HURRICANE; METABOLISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CARBON; CYCLONIC STORMS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD; METALS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUEENSLAND; RAIN; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SILICATES; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77949772757     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1527-2     Document Type: Article

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