Sustained losses of bioavailable nitrogen from montane tropical forests

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 123-126

  Brookshire, E N Jack ^a,b   Hedin, Lars O ^a   Newbold, J Denis ^c   Sigman, Daniel M ^a   Jackson, John K ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOAVAILABILITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SINK; EPISODIC EVENT; GROWTH RATE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONTANE FOREST; NITROGEN CYCLE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

EID: 84856690471     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1372     Document Type: Article

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