Impact of elevated N input on soil N cycling and losses in old-growth lowland and montane forests in Panama

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1715-1729

  Corre, Marife D ^a   Veldkamp, Edzo ^a   Arnold, Julia ^a   Joseph Wright, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Abiotic n immobilization; Gross n mineralization; Gross nitrification; Litterfall 15n signature; Long term nutrient manipulation experiment; Montane forest organic horizon; N leaching; N oxide emissions; Nh 4+ immobilization; Nitrogen deposition; No3 immobilization; Tropical lowland forest

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ACID SOIL; ANDISOL; BIOMASS; IMMOBILIZATION; INCEPTISOL; LEACHING; LITTERFALL; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; MONTANE FOREST; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT LOSS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; ORGANIC NITROGEN; RAINFALL; SANDY LOAM; SOIL NITROGEN; SUBSTRATE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PANAMA; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ALTITUDE; ECOSYSTEM; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PANAMA; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 77953236427     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0274.1     Document Type: Article

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