期刊
ECOLOGY LETTERS
卷 14, 期 9, 页码 939-947出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01658.x
关键词
Carbon cycle; climate; decomposition; meta-analysis; nitrogen; nutrient limitation; phosphorus; primary production; tropical forest
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资金
- National Science Foundation
- University of California
- State of California
- A.W. Mellon foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [0918835] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1027319, 0852916, 0823405, 0919080] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Tropical rain forests play a dominant role in global biosphere-atmosphere CO2 exchange. Although climate and nutrient availability regulate net primary production (NPP) and decomposition in all terrestrial ecosystems, the nature and extent of such controls in tropical forests remain poorly resolved. We conducted a meta-analysis of carbon-nutrient-climate relationships in 113 sites across the tropical forest biome. Our analyses showed that mean annual temperature was the strongest predictor of aboveground NPP (ANPP) across all tropical forests, but this relationship was driven by distinct temperature differences between upland and lowland forests. Within lowland forests (< 1000 m), a regression tree analysis revealed that foliar and soil-based measurements of phosphorus (P) were the only variables that explained a significant proportion of the variation in ANPP, although the relationships were weak. However, foliar P, foliar nitrogen (N), litter decomposition rate (k), soil N and soil respiration were all directly related with total surface (0-10 cm) soil P concentrations. Our analysis provides some evidence that P availability regulates NPP and other ecosystem processes in lowland tropical forests, but more importantly, underscores the need for a series of large-scale nutrient manipulations - especially in lowland forests - to elucidate the most important nutrient interactions and controls.
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