Progress towards understanding the extent to which mycorrhizal fungi are involved in the
mobilization of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from natural substrates is reviewed here …

The supply of nitrogen commonly limits plant production in boreal forests and also affects
species composition and ecosystem functions other than plant growth. These interrelations …

Contemporary soil science and conservation methods of effective forestry Forests and the
soils that serve as their foundation cover almost a third of the world's land area. Soils …

The topographic wetness index (TWI, ln (a/tanβ)), which combines local upslope contributing
area and slope, is commonly used to quantify topographic control on hydrological …

In Fennoscandian boreal forests, soil pH and N supply generally increase downhill as a
result of water transport of base cations and N, respectively. Simultaneously, forest …

There is plenty of evidence for improved nutrient acquisition by ectomycorrhizas in trees;
however, their role in water uptake is much less clear. In addition to experiments showing …

Topography is a major factor controlling both hydrological and soil processes at the
landscape scale. This is well-known qualitatively in that topography, along with parent …

Scientists rely on food webs—complex networks that trace the flow of nutrients and energy
between species and through ecosystems—to understand the infrastructure of ecological …

Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE), or the partitioning of assimilated C into growth or
respiration, is a key parameter that is central to understanding the soil C cycle and its …

Riparian forests (RFs) along streams and rivers in forested landscapes provide many
ecosystem functions that are important for the biodiversity and biogeochemistry of both …