Forest ecosystems with low soil nitrogen (N) availability are characterized by direct
competition for this growth‐limiting resource between several players, ie various …

The Amazon rainforest is the Earth's largest reservoir of plant and animal diversity, and it has
been subjected to especially high rates of land use change, primarily to cattle pasture. This …

Until recently, the common view of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle had been driven by two core
assumptions—plants use only inorganic N and they compete poorly against soil microbes …

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 …

Over the past several decades, the conversion of native forest to agricultural land uses has
accelerated across the Amazon Basin. Despite a growing body of research on nutrient …

To access the process of nitrogen mineralization in soil, the buried-bag technique was used
among traditional agroforestry systems in the Bhabhar belt of Kumaun Himalaya. The …

O solo é um importante compartimento de C e exerce papel fundamental sobre a emissão
de gases do efeito estufa e consequentes mudanças climáticas globais. Mudanças no uso e …

The biogeochemical cycling of carbon, water, energy, aerosols, and trace gases in the
Amazon Basin was investigated in the project European Studies on Trace Gases and …

Purpose Forests play a key role in the global carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling. Fire is a
global phenomenon occurring in many forest ecosystems, which has several environmental …

The replacement of native vegetation by pastures or tree plantations is increasing
worldwide. Contradictory effects of these land use transitions on the direction of changes in …