Productivity-efficiency tradeoffs in tropical gallery forest-savanna transitions: linking plant and soil processes through litter input and composition

Plant Ecology

Volumn 216, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 775-787

  Paiva, Artur Orelli ^a   Silva, Lucas Carvalho Ramos ^b   Haridasan, Mundayatan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerrado; Gallery forest; Litter; Nutrients; Savanna

Indexed keywords

CERRADO; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LEAF AREA INDEX; LEAF LITTER; LITTER; PLANT COMMUNITY; SAVANNA; SOIL FERTILITY; TRADE-OFF; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84930867684     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-015-0466-8     Document Type: Article

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