Differential effects of canopy trimming and litter deposition on litterfall and nutrient dynamics in a wet subtropical forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 332, Issue , 2014, Pages 47-55

  Silver, Whendee L ^a   Hall, Steven J ^b   González, Grizelle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Carbon; Climate change; Hurricane; Nutrients; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; HURRICANES; STORMS; TRIMMING; TROPICS;

DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT; FRACTIONAL COMPOSITION; HUMID TROPICAL FOREST; LITTERFALL PRODUCTION; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; SUBTROPICAL FORESTS; TROPICAL FOREST;

NUTRIENTS;

DISTURBANCE; FOREST CANOPY; HURRICANE; LITTER; LITTERFALL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL FOREST;

ALUMINUM; CARBON; CLIMATES; NUTRIENTS;

EID: 84914181074     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.05.018     Document Type: Article

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