Urine as an important source of sodium increases decomposition in an inland but not coastal tropical forest

Nutrient pulses can profoundly impact ecosystem processes and urine is a frequently deposited source of N and K, and Na. Na is unimportant to plants, but its addition can increase decomposition and change invertebrate community structure in Na-poor tropical forests. Here we used synthetic urine to s...

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Donoso Vargas, D. (author)
• التنسيق: article
• منشور في: 2015
• الموضوعات: biogeochemistry; biogeography; brown food web; isoptera; landscape heterogeneity; latrine; nutrient subsidies; urea
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-014-3183-4; http://dspace.utpl.edu.ec/handle/123456789/19071