Soil nutrient availability and reproductive effort drive patterns in nutrient resorption in Pentaclethra macroloba

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 930-940

  Tully, Katherine L ^a   Wood, Tana E ^b,c   Schwantes, Amanda M ^d   Lawrence, Deborah ^d  

^a Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c Fundación Puertorriquena de Conservación   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foliar nutrients; Nitrogen; Nutrient cycling; Nutrient resorption; Pentaclethra macroloba; Phosphorus; Reproductive effort; Soil nutrients; Wet tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; FRUITING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SAMPLING; SENESCENCE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA;

PENTACLETHRA MACROLOBA;

EID: 84876745871     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0781.1     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Abrahamson, W. G., and H. Caswell. 1982. On the comparative allocations of biomass, energy, and nutrients in plants. Ecology 63:982-991.
2. Aerts, R. 1996. Nutrient resorption from senescing leaves of perennials: Are there general patternsJournal of Ecology 84:597-608.
3. Aerts, R. 1997. Climate, leaf litter chemistry and leaf litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems: a triangular relationship. Oikos 79:439-449.
4. Aerts, R., and F. S. Chapin. 2000. The mineral nutrition of wild plants revisited: a re-evaluation of processes and patterns. Advances in Ecological Research 30:1-67.
5. Ashman, T. L. 1994. A dynamic perspective on the physiological cost of reproduction in plants. American Naturalist 144:300-316.
6. Austin, A. T., and P. M. Vitousek. 1998. Nutrient dynamics on a precipitation gradient in Hawai'i. Oecologia 113:519-529.
7. Barron, A. R., D. W. Purves, and L. O. Hedin. 2011. Facultative nitrogen fixation by canopy legumes in a lowland tropical forest. Oecologia 165:511-520.
8. Cardenas, I., and J. Campo. 2007. Foliar nitrogen and phosphorus resorption and decomposition in the nitrogenfixing tree Lysiloma microphyllum in primary and secondary seasonally tropical dry forests in Mexico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 23:107-113.
9. Chapin, F. S., III. 1980. The mineral nutrition of wild plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 11:233-260.
10. Chapin, F. S., III, and R. A. Kedrowski. 1983. Seasonal changes in nitrogen and phosphorus fractions and autumn retranslocation in evergreen and deciduous taiga trees. Ecology 64:376-391.
11. Chapin, F. S., III, and L. Moilanen. 1991. Nutritional controls over nitrogen and phosphorus resorption from Alaskan birch leaves. Ecology 72:709-715.
12. Chapin, F. S., III, E.-D. Schulze, and H. A. Mooney. 1990. The ecology and economics of storage in plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 21:423-447.
13. Chazdon, R. L., A. R. Brenes, and B. V. Alvarado. 2005. Effects of climate and stand age on annual tree dynamics in tropical second-growth rain forest. Ecology 86:1808-1815.
14. Cipollini, M. L., and E. W. Stiles. 1991. Costs of reproduction in Nyssa sylvatica: sexual dimorphism in reproductive frequency and nutrient flux. Oecologia 86:585-593.
15. Clark, D. B., and D. A. Clark. 2000. Landscape-scale variation in forest structure and biomass in a tropical rain forest. Forest Ecology and Management 137:185-198.
16. Clark, D. B., D. A. Clark, and J. M. Read. 1998. Edaphic variation and the mesoscale distribution of tree species in a neotropical rain forest. Journal of Ecology 86:101-112.
17. Cleveland, C. C., et al. 2011. Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan-tropical analysis. Ecology Letters 14:939-947.
18. Cordell, S., G. Goldstein, F. C. Meinzer, and P. M. Vitousek. 2001. Regulation of leaf life-span and nutrient-use efficiency of Metrosideros polymorpha trees at two extremes of a long chronosequence in Hawaii. Oecologia 127:198-206.
19. Crews, T. E., K. Kitayama, J. H. Fownes, R. H. Riley, D. A. Herbert, D. Mueller-Dombois, and P. M. Vitousek. 1995. Changes in soil phosphorus fractions and ecosystem dynamics across a long chronosequence in Hawaii. Ecology 76:1407-1424.
20. Davidson, E. A., C. J. R. de Carvalho, A. M. Figueira, F. Y. Ishida, J. P. H. B. Ometto, G. B. Nardoto, R. T. Saba, S. N. Hayashi, E. C. Leal, and I. C. G. Vieira. 2007. Recuperation of nitrogen cycling in Amazonian forests following agricultural abandonment. Nature 447:995-998.
21. Davidson, E. A., C. J. R. de Carvalho, I. C. G. Vieira, R. D. Figueiredo, P. Moutinho, F. Y. Ishida, M. T. P. dos Santos, J. B. Guerrero, K. Kalif, and R. T. Saba. 2004. Nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of biomass growth in a tropical secondary forest. Ecological Applications 14:S150-S163.
22. Del Arco, J. M., A. Escudero, and M. V. Garrido. 1991. Effects of site characteristics on nitrogen retranslocation from senescing leaves. Ecology 72:701-708.
23. Escudero, A., J. M. del Arco, I. C. Sanz, and J. Ayala. 1992. Effects of leaf longevity and retranslocation efficiency on the retention time of nutrients in the leaf biomass of different woody species. Oecologia 90:80-87.
24. Espeleta, J. F., and D. A. Clark. 2007. Multi-scale variation in fine-root biomass in a tropical rain forest: a seven-year study. Ecological Monographs 77:377-404.
25. Frankie, G. W., H. G. Baker, and P. A. Opler. 1974. Comparative phenological studies of trees in tropical wet and dry forests in the lowlands of Costa Rica. Journal of Ecology 62:881-919.
26. Gentry, A. H. 1988. Changes in plant community diversity and floristic composition on environmental and geographical gradients. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 75:1-34.
27. Harrington, R. A., J. H. Fownes, and P. M. Vitousek. 2001. Production and resource use efficiencies in N-and P-limited tropical forests: a comparison of responses to long-term fertilization. Ecosystems 4:646-657.
28. Heerwaarden, L. M., S. Toet, and R. Aerts. 2003. Current measures of nutrient resorption efficiency lead to a substantial underestimation of real resorption efficiency: facts and solutions. Oikos 101:664-669.
29. Holdridge, L. R. 1947. Determination of world plant formations from simple climate data. Science 105:367-368.
30. Houlton, B. Z., Y. P. Wang, P. M. Vitousek, and C. B. Field. 2008. A unifying framework for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere. Nature 454:327-330.
31. Inagaki, M., K. Kamo, K. Miyamoto, J. Titin, L. Jamalung, J. Lapongan, and S. Miura. 2011. Nitrogen and phosphorus retranslocation and N:P ratios of litterfall in three tropical plantations: luxurious N and efficient P use by Acacia mangium. Plant and Soil 341:295-307.
32. Jonsson, I. 2000. Life history consequences of fixed costs of reproduction. Ecoscience 7:423-427.
33. Khanna, P. K. 1998. Nutrient cycling under mixed-species tree systems in southeast Asia. Agroforestry Systems 38:99-120.
34. Killingbeck, K. T. 1986. The terminological jungle revisited: making a case for use of the term resorption. Oikos 46:263-264.
35. Killingbeck, K. T. 1996. Nutrients in senesced leaves: keys to the search for potential resorption and resorption proficiency. Ecology 77:1716-1727.
36. Kobe, R. K., C. A. Lepczyk, and M. Iyer. 2005. Resorption efficiency decreases with increasing green leaf nutrients in a global data set. Ecology 86:2780-2792.
37. Lal, C. B., C. Annapurna, A. S. Raghubanshi, and J. S. Singh. 2001. Effect of leaf habit and soil type on nutrient resorption and conservation in woody species of a dry tropical environment. Canadian Journal of Botany 79:1066-1075.
38. Lee, Y. K., D. K. Lee, S. Y. Woo, P. S. Park, Y. H. Jang, and E. R. G. Abraham. 2006. Effect of Acacia plantations on net photosynthesis, tree species composition, soil enzyme activities, and microclimate on Mt. Makiling. Photosynthetica 44:299-308.
39. McGroddy, M. E., T. Daufresne, and L. O. Hedin. 2004. Scaling of C:P stoichiometry in forests worldwide: implications of terrestrial redfield-type ratios. Ecology 85:2390-2401.
40. Menge, D. N. L., S. A. Levin, and L. O. Hedin. 2009. Facultative versus obligate nitrogen fixation strategies and their ecosystem consequences. American Naturalist 174:465-477.
41. Pakonen, T., K. Laine, P. Havas, and E. Saari. 1988. Effects of berry production and deblossoming on growth, carbohydrates and nitrogen compounds in Vaccinium myrtillus in north Finland. Acta Botanica Fennica 136:37-42.
42. Pugnaire, F. I., and F. S. Chapin, III. 1993. Controls over nutrient resorption from leaves of evergreen Mediterranean species. Ecology 74:124-129.
43. Reich, P. B., C. Uhl, M. B. Walters, and D. S. Ellsworth. 1991. Leaf lifespan as a determinant of leaf structure and function among 23 Amazonian tree species. Oecologia 86:16-24.
44. Renteria, L. Y., V. J. Jaramillo, A. Martinez-Yrizar, and A. Perez-Jimenez. 2005. Nitrogen and phosphorus resorption in trees of a Mexican tropical dry forest. Trees -Structure and Function 19:431-441.
45. Shaver, G. R., and J. M. Melillo. 1984. Nutrient budgets of marsh plants: efficiency concepts and relation to availability. Ecology 64:1491-1510.
46. Sollins, P., F. M. Sancho, R. Rafael, and R. L. Sanford. 1994. Soils and soil processes research. Pages 34-53 in L. A. McDade, K. S. Bawa, H. A. Hespenheide, and G. S. Hartshorn., editors. La Selva. Ecology and natural history of a Neotropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, US.A.
47. Vitousek, P. M. 1982. Nutrient cycling and nutrient use efficiency. American Naturalist 119:553-573.
48. Vitousek, P. M. 1998. Foliar and litter nutrients, nutrient resorption, and decomposition in Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha. Ecosystems 1:401-407.
49. Vitousek, P. M., and R. L. Sanford, Jr. 1986. Nutrient cycling in moist tropical forest. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 17:137-167.
50. Wood, T. E., D. Lawrence, and D. A. Clark. 2006. Determinants of leaf litter nutrient cycling in a tropical rain forest: soil fertility versus topography. Ecosystems 9:700-710.
51. Wood, T. E., D. Lawrence, D. A. Clark, and R. L. Chazdon. 2009. Rain forest nutrient cycling and productivity in response to large-scale litter manipulation. Ecology 90:109-121.
52. Wood, T. E., D. Lawrence, and J. A. Wells. 2011. Inter-specific variation in foliar nutrients and resorption of nine canopy tree species in a secondary neotropical rain forest. Biotropica 43:544-551.
53. Yuan, Z. Y., and H. Y. H. Chen. 2009. Global-scale patterns of nutrient resorption associated with latitude, temperature and precipitation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18:11-18.