Nitrogen and phosphorus additions negatively affect tree species diversity in tropical forest regrowth trajectories

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2121-2131

  Siddique, Ilyas ^a,e   Vieira, Ima Célia Gurães ^b   Schmidt, Susanne ^a   Lamb, David ^a   Carvalho, Cláudio José Reis ^c   De Figueiredo, Ricardo Oliveira ^c   Blombero, Simon ^a   Davidson, Eric A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^d WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Biodiversity loss; Clay oxisol; Ecosystem fertilization; Mixed effects models; N +p synergism; N and p colimitation; Niche dimensionality; Spatial heterogeneity; Tree species richness; Tree grass interactions; Tropical moist forest recovery; Vegetation development

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT; FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

DICOTYLEDON; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT LOSS; HETEROGENEITY; NICHE PARTITIONING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; OXISOL; PHOSPHORUS; REGROWTH; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; DRUG EFFECTS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ELEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERTILIZERS; FIRES; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AMAZONIA;

ANNONACEAE; ROLLINIA;

EID: 77954577292     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0636.1     Document Type: Article

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