Precipitation regime and nitrogen addition effects on leaf litter decomposition in tropical dry forests

Biotropica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 415-424

  Bejarano, Marylin ^a,b   Crosby, María M ^c   Parra, Víctor ^d   Etchevers, Jorge D ^c   Campo, Julio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Pronatura sur   (Mexico)

^c Colegio de Postgraduados ^*  (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Carbon compounds; Climate change; Gymnopodium floribundum; Mexico; Nitrogen deposition; Piscidia piscipula; Yucatan

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; DRY FOREST; EVERGREEN TREE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEAF LITTER; LIGNIN; NITROGEN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REACTION RATE; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

GYMNOPODIUM FLORIBUNDUM; PISCIDIA; PISCIDIA PISCIPULA;

EID: 84903477505     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12127     Document Type: Article

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