Production and Resource Use Efficiencies in N- and P-Limited Tropical Forests: A Comparison of Responses to Long-term Fertilization

By R. Harrington, J. Fownes, P. Vitousek. Ecosystems, 2001

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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INVASION BY A N2-FIXING TREE ALTERS FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE IN WET LOWLAND FORESTS OF HAWAII (2005, background): “Constraints on primary production imposed by N limitation (Harrington et al. 2001) are further exacerbated by the lack of native N2-fixing plants in early successional forests even though such species are represented in Hawaii’s flora (Wagner et al. 1999).”
Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the Rainforests: The Impact of Plant Physiological Evolution on Tropical Biodiversity1 (2010, background): “…is often quite low: the LAI of Ginkgo L. is below the angiosperm average, and tree ferns, which are representative of a rosette architecture common in the geological past with groups such as cycads, medullosans, and Bennettitales, can approach LAI values as low as 1 (Harrington et al., 2001).”
Soil nutrient availability and reproductive effort drive patterns in nutrient resorption in Pentaclethra macroloba (2013, unknown): “Indeed, recent studies on resorption in tropical species often have conflicting results on the drivers of resorption, indicating the complexity of these systems (Austin and Vitousek 1998, Cordell et al. 2001, Harrington et al. 2001, Lal et al. 2001, Renterı́a et al. 2005).”
Elevated enzyme activities in soils under the invasive nitrogen-fixing tree Falcataria moluccana. (2006, background): “Although forests on young lava flows in Hawaii are usually N-limited, sustained N inputs have been shown to induce secondary P limitation (Harrington et al., 2001; Vitousek, 2004), and we suspect that Falcataria invasion has had a similar effect.”
Foliar nitrogen and phosphorus accumulation responses after fertilization: an example from nutrient-limited Hawaiian forests (2010, result): “This pattern has been reported in several independent studies (Vitousek 1998; Cordell et al. 2001; Harrington et al. 2001; Treseder and Vitousek 2001) and has also been noted for roots (Ostertag 2001).”
Global change effects on humid tropical forests: Evidence for biogeochemical and biodiversity shifts at an ecosystem scale (2016, background): “A Hawaiian N fertilization experiment on highly weathered montane tropical soils similarly showed no change in leaf area index or stem growth with N fertilization after 1 year (100 kgN/ha/yr) [Herbert and Fownes, 1995] nor after 11 years [Harrington et al., 2001].”
Does phosphorus limitation promote species-rich plant communities? (2011, unknown): “These results fit well with other studies indicating that N limitation favours plants with a high biomass investment in roots and root length, and a high photosynthetic activity, growth rate and nitrogen productivity, in contrast, to P limitation where investments in P acquisition and storage, a lon”
Responses of extracellular enzymes to simple and complex nutrient inputs (2005, background): “This difference is reasonable because our soils are N-poor (Harrington et al., 2001), and microbes probably do not have access to a readily available N source to build enzymes.”