The Nitrogen Paradox in Tropical Forest Ecosystems
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Lars O Hedin,
E N Jack Brookshire,
Duncan N L Menge,
Alexander R Barron
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A Markham in Climatic Change (1998)Review of literature indicates that many uncertainties and assumptions exist in predicting the impacts of a climate change on forest ecosystems. However, current knowledge is sufficient to encourage any measures that are combating climate change,…Save reference to library · Related research 18 readers
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L A Bruijnzeel in Journal of Tropical Ecology (1991)Atmospheric gains and hydrologic losses of calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen for 25 tropical forest sites on a variety of geological substrates are reviewed. The data set comprised 19 lowland and six montane sites. Twenty…Save reference to library · Related research 25 readers
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H C Evans in Ecological Entomology (1982)1. Species of the genus Cordyceps (Ascomycotina; Clavicipitales) are the commonest fungi encountered on arthropods in tropical forests. 2. The asexual states of Cordyceps may occur in conjunction with or separately from the perfect state and are…Save reference to library · Related research 10 readers
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S Kobayashi, J W Turnbull, C Cossalter in Forestry (1991)Tropical forests are being cleared at a rate of 16.9 million hectares per year and timber harvesting results in over 5 million hectares becoming secondary forests annually without adequate management. This decrease and degradation affect both timber…Save reference to library · Related research 11 readers
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Darrell Addison Posey in Agroforestry Systems (1985)The Kayapó Indians of Brazil's Amazon Basin are described as effective managers of tropical forest, utilizing an extensive inventory of useful native plants that are concentrated by human activity in special forest areas (resource islands, forest…Save reference to library · Related research 36 readers
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R Lal in Journal of Sustainable Forestry (2005)This review article collates and synthesizes the available information on the potential of agroforestry and tropical plantations on soil carbon (C) sequestration to mitigate the greenhouse effect. Tropical forest ecosystems (TFEs) occupy 1.8 billion…Save reference to library · Related research 14 readers
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H C Evans, R A Samson in Transactions of the British Mycological Society (1982)Atta cephalotes is not discussed in this paper. Evidence is presented for the occurrence of epizootics of Cordyceps species on ants in Amazonian rain forests. A single outbreak involving Cordyceps kniphofioides n.sp. & Cordyceps cucumispora n.sp.,…Save reference to library · Related research 14 readers
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Anton C Imeson, Marinus Vis in Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography (2007)Erosion processes in relatively undisturbed tropical forest ecosystems were investigated along a transect across the Central Andean Cordillera between Pereira and Venadillo in the Departamento del Tolima Colombia. Of particular interest were…Save reference to library · Related research 2 readers
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