Performance of seedlings of a shade-tolerant tropical tree species after moderate addition of N and P

Nitrogen deposition to tropical forests is predicted to increase in future in many regions due to agricultural intensification. We conducted a seedling transplantation experiment in a tropical premontane forest in Ecuador with a locally abundant late-successional tree species (Pouteria torta, Sapota...

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Main Authors: Daisy eCárate Tandalla, Christoph eLeuschner, Jürgen eHomeier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/feart.2015.00075/full