Insect defoliation enhances nitrate export from forest ecosystems
- 31 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Oecologia
- Vol. 51 (3) , 297-299
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00540897
Abstract
Chronic defoliation by the fall cankerworm, Alsophila pometaria (Harris), accompanied substantial increases in the stream export of nitrate nitrogen (NO3−N) from three mixed hardwood forests in the southern Appalachians. These integrated results clearly demonstrate a measurable effect of insect consumers on ecosystem processes, and provide support for the regulatory importance of insects on a landscape scale.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Consumer Regulation of Nutrient CyclingBioScience, 1979
- Biogeochemistry of a Forested EcosystemPublished by Springer Nature ,1977
- Phytophagous Insects as Regulators of Forest Primary ProductionScience, 1975