Volcanic eruptions affect land and humans globally. When a volcano erupts, tons of volcanic ash materials are ejected to the atmosphere and deposited on land. The hazard posed by …
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 …
M Uriarte, CB Yackulic, Y Lim, JA Arce-Nazario - Landscape ecology, 2011 - Springer
There is a pressing need to understand the consequences of human activities, such as land transformations, on watershed ecosystem services. This is a challenging task because …
LO Hedin, PM Vitousek, PA Matson - Ecology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Biological, atmospheric, and geochemical processes interact to shape how element cycles and nutrient losses develop within newly formed landscapes. We examined losses of …
Background and purpose Volcanic eruptions of pyroclastic tephra, including the ash-sized fraction (< 2 mm; referred to as volcanic ash), have negative direct impacts on soil quality …
Forested soils in the tropics contain a large carbon pool that may respond to global environmental changes such as climate warming and land-use change. A better …
Current models of ecosystem development hold that low nitrogen availability limits the earliest stages of primary succession, but these models were developed from studies …
Sequential chemical extraction has been widely used to study soil phosphorus (P) dynamics and inform nutrient management, but its efficacy for assigning P into biologically meaningful …