Background and scope Plant communities and underlying soils undergo substantial,
coordinated shifts throughout ecosystem development. However, shifts in the composition …

Tree ferns are a ubiquitous and often locally dominant element of wet southern temperate
rainforests across Australasia, southern Africa and in regions adjacent to the tropics in South …

Innovative non-destructive 2D imaging methods such as zymography and diffusive gradients
in thin films (DGT) have been developed recently to assess the distribution of phosphatase …

ABSTRACT The Haast chronosequence in New Zealand is an∼ 6500-year dune formation
series, characterized by rapid podzol development, phosphorus (P) depletion and a decline …

Background Low phosphorus (P) soils have been described as a widespread characteristic
of the Australian continent and associated with sclerophyll leaf traits. In that context we ask …

The chemical composition of soil phosphorus can vary markedly during pedogenesis, which
has implications for phosphorus availability to plant and microbial communities during long …

Aims To test predictions of ecosystem theory for changes in P cycling over primary
succession, we determined soil phosphorus (P) in labile, primary mineral, organic, and …

Soils provide critical support essential for life on earth, regulate processes across diverse
terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and interact with the atmosphere. However, soil science …

Phosphorus (P) availability declines during ecosystem development due in part to chemical
transformations of P in the soil. Here we report changes in soil P pools and the oxygen …

In Bavarian alpine forests, long-term input of organic matter from conifer species has built up
thick organic surface layers, thus immobilized substantial soil organic phosphorus upon …