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Fungal community composition and metabolism under elevated CO 2 and O 3
(Springer-Verlag, 2006-02)
Atmospheric CO 2 and O 3 concentrations are increasing due to human activity and both trace gases have the potential to alter C cycling in forest ecosystems. Because soil microorganisms depend on plant litter as a source ...
Coastal eutrophication assessment in the United States
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-04-21)
Recent national assessments document that nitrogen-driven coastal eutrophication is widespread and increasing in the United States. This significant coastal pollution problem includes impacts including increased areas and ...
Impacts of major predators on tropical agroforest arthropods: comparisons within and across taxa
(Springer-Verlag, 2004-06)
In food web studies, taxonomically unrelated predators are often grouped into trophic levels regardless of their relative importance on prey assemblages, multiple predator effects, or interactions such as omnivory. Ants ...
Sources of reactive nitrogen affecting ecosystems in Latin America and the Caribbean: current trends and future perspectives
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-04-06)
While the amount of reactive nitrogen circulating at the global level has increased markedly in the last century, the effects of this increase are largely seen at the regional level due to interacting ecological and ...
Anthropogenic N deposition and the fate of 15 NO 3 − in a northern hardwood ecosystem
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-06)
Human activity has substantially increased atmospheric NO 3 − deposition in many regions of the Earth, which could lead to the N saturation of terrestrial ecosystems. Sugar maple ( Acer saccharum Marsh.) dominated northern ...
Fine root chemistry and decomposition in model communities of north-temperate tree species show little response to elevated atmospheric CO 2 and varying soil resource availability
(Springer-Verlag, 2005-12)
Rising atmospheric [CO 2 ] has the potential to alter soil carbon (C) cycling by increasing the content of recalcitrant constituents in plant litter, thereby decreasing rates of decomposition. Because fine root turnover ...
Microbial community composition and function beneath temperate trees exposed to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide and ozone
(Springer-Verlag, 2002-04)
We hypothesized that changes in plant growth resulting from atmospheric CO 2 and O 3 enrichment would alter the flow of C through soil food webs and that this effect would vary with tree species. To test this idea, we ...
Microbial Community Structure and Oxidative Enzyme Activity in Nitrogen-amended North Temperate Forest Soils
(Springer-Verlag; Spreinger-Verlag, 2004-10)
Large regions of temperate forest are subject to elevated atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition which can affect soil organic matter dynamics by altering mass loss rates, soil respiration, and dissolved organic matter ...
Extracellular Enzyme Activities and Soil Organic Matter Dynamics for Northern Hardwood Forests receiving Simulated Nitrogen Deposition
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer, 2005-08)
Anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment alters decomposition processes that control the flux of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) from soil organic matter (SOM) pools. To link N-driven changes in SOM to microbial responses, we measured ...
Fine-root biomass and fluxes of soil carbon in young stands of paper birch and trembling aspen as affected by elevated atmospheric CO 2 and tropospheric O 3
(Springer-Verlag, 2001-07)
Rising atmospheric CO 2 may stimulate future forest productivity, possibly increasing carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems, but how tropospheric ozone will modify this response is unknown. Because of the importance of ...