Review of root dynamics in forest ecosystems grouped by climate, climatic forest type and species

KA Vogt, DJ Vogt, PA Palmiotto, P Boon, J O'Hara… - Plant and soil, 1995 - Springer
Patterns of both above-and belowground biomass and production were evaluated using
published information from 200 individual data-sets. Data sets were comprised of the …

Experimental investigation of nutrient limitation of forest growth on wet tropical mountains

EVJ Tanner, PM Vitousek, E Cuevas - Ecology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews literature and summarizes experiments to investigate the extent to which
productivity of tropical montane rain forests is constrained by low nutrient supply. On any …

[LIVRE][B] Estimating biomass and biomass change of tropical forests: a primer

S Brown - 1997 - books.google.com
Page 1 ISSN 0258-6150 Estimating biomass and biomass change of tropical forests A primer
FAO FORESTRY PAPER 134 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations A F FIAT …

Root biomass allocation in the world's upland forests

MA Cairns, S Brown, EH Helmer, GA Baumgardner - Oecologia, 1997 - Springer
Because the world's forests play a major role in regulating nutrient and carbon cycles, there
is much interest in estimating their biomass. Estimates of aboveground biomass based on …

[LIVRE][B] Vascular epiphytes: general biology and related biota

DH Benzing - 2008 - books.google.com
Epiphytes (plants which grow on other plants, not parasitically but for support), comprise
more than one-third of the total vascular flora in some tropical forests. Growing within tropical …

The storage and production of organic matter in tropical forests and their role in the global carbon cycle

S Brown, AE Lugo - Biotropica, 1982 - JSTOR
To investigate the storage relationships between and production of organic matter in tropical
forests and climate, data on forest biomass, soil organic matter, litter storage, primary …

[PDF][PDF] Aboveground biomass estimates for tropical moist forests of the Brazilian Amazon

S Brown, AE Lugo - Interciencia. Caracas, 1992 - inct-servamb.inpa.gov.br
D ne of the issues of ma-jor global concern is the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide
and its potential to change world climate. Most of the contribution to atmospheric carbon …

Net primary production in tropical forests: an evaluation and synthesis of existing field data

DA Clark, S Brown, DW Kicklighter… - Ecological …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Information on net primary production in tropical forests is needed for the development of
realistic global carbon budgets, for projecting how these ecosystems will be affected by …

Hydrometeorology of tropical montane cloud forests: emerging patterns

LA Bruijnzeel, M Mulligan… - Hydrological Processes, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical montane cloud forests (TMCF) typically experience conditions of frequent to
persistent fog. On the basis of the altitudinal limits between which TMCF generally occur …

Structure, composition and species diversity in an altitude-substrate matrix of rain forest tree communities on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

S Aiba, K Kitayama - Plant Ecology, 1999 - Springer
We studied forest structure, composition and tree species diversity of eight plots in an
environmental matrix of four altitudes (700, 1700, 2700 and 3100 m) and two types of …