Nutrient cycling in Subarctic and Arctic ecosystems, with special reference to the Abisko and Tornetrask region
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This review of research on nutrient circulation performed in the Tornetrask area, showed that the living phytomass in various ecosystem types there contained between 5 and 30% of the ecosystem pools of biologically fixed N and P. From 4% to a maximum of 14% of the ecosystem N was in leaves and fine root biomass, ie in plant tissues with turnover times <10 yr. Atmospheric nutrient deposition and nitrogen fixation were important sources of nutrients to annual primary productivity in mires. The mineralization rate of N and P was low and the soil microbes immobilzed nutrients efficiently. -from Authors
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Plant Ecology in the Subarctic Swedish Lapland |
Number of pages | 8 |
Publication date | 1996 |
Pages | 45-52 |
Publication status | Published - 1996 |
Series | Ecological Bulletins - Sweden |
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ISSN | 0346-6868 |
ID: 257160448