Is tree diversity an important driver for phosphorus and nitrogen acquisition of a young tropical plantation?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1424-1433

  Zeugin, F ^a   Potvin, C ^b,c   Jansa, J ^a   Scherer Lorenzen, M ^a,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; Environmental heterogeneity; Nutrient use efficiency; Panama; Resource complementarity; Sardinilla; Tropical tree plantations

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; PANAMA; RESOURCE COMPLEMENTARITY; SARDINILLA; TROPICAL TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; INSECT CONTROL; LAKES; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; TROPICS;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; MONOCULTURE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PEST CONTROL; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; CENTRAL AMERICA; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; INSECT CONTROL; LAKES; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; STERCULIA; TROPICS;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ANACARDIUM EXCELSUM; ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE; HURA CREPITANS; LUEHEA SEEMANNII; TABEBUIA; TABEBUIA ROSEA; TECTONA GRANDIS;

EID: 77957013305     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.07.020     Document Type: Article

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