Rapidly growing tropical trees mobilize remarkable amounts of nitrogen, in ways that differ surprisingly among species

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 10398-10402

  Russell, Ann E ^a   Raich, James W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Forest regrowth; Nitrogen cycle; Soil organic nitrogen; Species effects

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; EVERGREEN; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NITROGEN UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BIOMASS; NITROGEN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

VOCHYSIA GUATEMALENSIS;

EID: 84862999157     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204157109     Document Type: Article

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