Foliar and soil concentrations and stoichiometry of nitrogen and phosphorous across European Pinus sylvestris forests: Relationships with climate, N deposition and tree growth

Functional Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 676-689

  Sardans, Jordi ^a,b   Alonso, Rocio ^c   Janssens, Ivan A ^d   Carnicer, Jofre ^a,b,e   Vereseglou, Stavros ^f,g   Rillig, Matthias C ^f,g   Fernández Martínez, Marcos ^a,b   Sanders, Tanja G M ^h,i   Peñuelas, Josep ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c CIEMAT   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

^h Institute of Forest Ecology and Forest Inventory   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

C:N ratio; C:P ratio; Ecological stoichiometry; Foliar nutrient content; Global change; K; N deposition; N:P ratio; Soil eutrophication; Soil solution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS TREE; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; NUTRIENT; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL NUTRIENT; STOICHIOMETRY;

EUROPE;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84945261854     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12541     Document Type: Article

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