Response of N cycling to nutrient inputs in forest soils across a 1000-3000 m elevation gradient in the Ecuadorian Andes

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 749-761

  Baldos, Angelica P ^a,b   Corre, Marife D ^a   Veldkamp, Edzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium; Gross N mineralization; Gross nitrification; Microbial N immobilization; Nitrogen and phosphorus additions; Nutrient manipulation experiment; Tropical Andes; Tropical montane forests

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ELEVATION; FOREST SOIL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MONTANE FOREST; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ANDES; ECUADOR;

PHOSPHORUS; SOIL;

ALTITUDE; CHEMISTRY; ECUADOR; FOREST; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN CYCLE; RANDOMIZATION; SOIL;

ALTITUDE; ECUADOR; FORESTS; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHOSPHORUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84929661085     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0295.1     Document Type: Article

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