Relationships among precipitation regime, nutrient availability, and carbon turnover in tropical rain forests

Oecologia

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 783-795

  Posada, Juan M ^a,b   Schuur, Edward A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Nitrogen; Phosphorous; Radiocarbon; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON ISOTOPE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SOIL; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHORUS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOCARBON DATING; RAINFOREST; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 79951551595     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1881-0     Document Type: Article

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