Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 939–947 Abstract Tropical rain forests play a dominant role in
global biosphere‐atmosphere CO2 exchange. Although climate and nutrient availability …

Hurricanes have visible and invisible effects on forests. The visible effects are dramatic,
noticeable over the short‐term and relatively well documented in the literature. Invisible …

An increasing number of studies in a wide range of natural systems have investigated how
pulses of resource availability influence ecological processes at individual, population, and …

Global change has been shown to alter the amount of above-ground litter inputs to soil
greatly, which could cause substantial cascading effects on below-ground biogeochemical …

Forest ecologists and biogeochemists have used a variety of extraction techniques to assess
labile vs. non-labile soil P pools in chronosequences, the balance between biological vs …

The affinity of iron oxides and hydroxides for phosphorus is thought to contribute to
phosphorus limitation to net primary productivity in humid tropical forests on acidic, highly …

Global changes and human disturbances can strongly affect the quantity of aboveground
litter entering soils, which could result in substantial cascading effects on soil …

Heterotrophic respiration (RH) is a major process releasing carbon to the atmosphere and is
essential to understanding carbon dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems. Here we review what …

Many forests experience periodic, large‐scale disturbances, such as hurricanes and
cyclones, which open the forest canopy, causing dramatic changes in understorey light …

Strong tropical storms are known to affect forest structure, composition, and nutrient cycles in
both tropical and temperate regions, although our understanding of these effects …