Soil fertility and fine root dynamics in response to 4 years of nutrient (N, P, K) fertilization in a lowland tropical moist forest, Panama

Austral Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 433-445

  Yavitt, Joseph B ^a   Harms, Kyle E ^b,c   Garcia, Milton N ^c   Mirabello, Matt J ^a   Wright, S Joseph ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Fine root biomass; Fine root turnover; Forest nutrient fertilization; Minirhizotron; Nutrient availability

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FINE ROOT; FOREST SOIL; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NITRATE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PHOSPHATE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL HORIZON; TROPICAL FOREST;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 79957627990     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2010.02157.x     Document Type: Article

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