Seasonal changes and treatment effects on soil inorganic nutrients following a decade of fertilizer addition in a lowland tropical forest

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1357-1369

  Turner, Benjamin L ^a   Yavitt, Joseph B ^b   Harms, Kyle E ^a,c   Garcia, Milton N ^a   Romero, Tania E ^a   Wright, S Joseph ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS; INORGANIC NUTRIENTS; LONG-TERM FERTILIZATION EXPERIMENTS; PHOSPHATE SORPTION CAPACITY; SOIL ACIDIFICATIONS; TROPICAL FOREST SOILS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ACIDIFICATION; DEPOSITION; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; NUTRIENTS; POSITIVE IONS; SOILS; TROPICS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ACIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOREST SOIL; GROWTH RATE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NITRATE; PH; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL NUTRIENT; TOXIN; TRACE ELEMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

ACIDIFICATION; CATIONS; DEPOSITION; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; NUTRIENTS; POLLUTION; SOIL; TROPICS;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84880744721     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2012.0128     Document Type: Article

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