Nitrogen and Phosphorus Availability in Treefall Gaps of a Lowland Tropical Rainforest
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Ecology
- Vol. 74 (4) , 1167-1178
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2260241
Abstract
(1) Nitrogen availability (net nitrogen mineralization) was extremely high in a lowland rainforest on volcanic soil at La Selva, Costa Rica, averaging 50-80 μ g...This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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