Environmental Filtering and Positive Plant Litter Feedback Simultaneously Explain Correlations Between Leaf Traits and Soil Fertility

Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1269-1280

  Laughlin, Daniel C ^a   Richardson, Sarah J ^b   Wright, Elaine F ^c   Bellingham, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

leaf economic spectrum; nitrogen; non recursive model; plant soil feedback; structural equation modeling; wood density

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DRY MATTER; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; LEAF; LITTER; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; RESORPTION; SENESCENCE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; WOOD;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84944324941     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9899-0     Document Type: Article

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