The availability or lack of nutrients shapes ecosystems in fundamental ways. From forest
productivity to soil fertility, from the diversity of animals to the composition of microbial …

How plants respond to long-term nutrient enrichment can provide insights into physiological
and evolutionary constraints in various ecosystems. The present study examined foliar …

Biological, atmospheric, and geochemical processes interact to shape how element cycles
and nutrient losses develop within newly formed landscapes. We examined losses of …

The importance of nutrient limitation and recycling in ecosystems is widely recognized.
Nutrients, defined in the broad sense as all material elements vital to biological functions …

Quantifying nutrient limitation of primary productivity is a fundamental task of terrestrial
ecosystem ecology, but in a high carbon dioxide environment it is even more critical that we …

We evaluated soil and foliar nutrients in five native forests in Hawai'i with annual rainfall
ranging from 500 mm to 5500 mm. All of the sites were at the same elevation and of the …

Tropical soils often are assumed to be highly weathered and thus nutrient-depleted, but this
prediction applies primarily to geomorphically stable surfaces. Topography complicates the …

Variation in rainfall in humid tropical forests has the potential to alter patterns of primary
productivity andnutrient cycling. Net primary productivity (NPP) and nutrient cycling were …

Widely used conceptual models for controls on nutrient cycling and input-outputs budgets of
forest ecosystems suggest that:(1) nutrient losses from ecosystems originate in the available …

Most vegetation is limited in productivity by nutrient availability, but the magnitude of
limitation globally is not known. Nutrient limitation is directly relevant not only to ecology and …