Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest-savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 6529-6571

  Lloyd, J ^a,b   Domingues, T F ^c   Schrodt, F ^d,e   Ishida, F Y ^b   Feldpausch, T R ^f   Saiz, G ^g   Quesada, C A ^h   Schwarz, M ⁱ   Torello Raventos, M ^b   Gilpin, M ^j   Marimon, B S ^k   Marimon Junior, B H ^k   Ratter, J A ^l   Grace, J ^m   Nardoto, G B ⁿ   Veenendaal, E ^o   Arroyo, L ^p   Villarroel, D ^q   Killeen, T J ^r   Steininger, M ^s   Phillips, O L ^j   more..

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

ⁱ Fieldwork Assistance   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DE MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^l ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ Predio da FACE Brasilia ^*  (Brazil)

^o WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^p Centro de Investigación Económica del Colegio de Economista   (Bolivia)

^q Museo Noel Kempff Mercado   (Bolivia)

^r Agrotecnologica Amazonica   (Bolivia)

^s Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOTONE; FOREST CANOPY; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; MAGNESIUM; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POTASSIUM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAVANNA; SOIL TEXTURE; TROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODY PLANT;

AFRICA; AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 84941902028     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-6529-2015     Document Type: Article

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