Responses of early successional northern hardwood forests to changes in nutrient availability.

From: Ecological Monographs | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: Battles, John J.; Fahey, Timothy J.; Wilson, Geoffrey F. | Copyright information

In many mesic forests the dominant trees are limited concurrently by light and soil resources, and understanding the mechanisms of competition and predicting outcomes of competition are especially difficult when co-limitation exists. We altered soil resource availability during the early stages of stand development after clearcutting of northern hardwood forests to examine the mechanism of competition. Specifically, we sought empirical evidence about the role of various physiological, morphol...

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