Forest canopies help determine natural fertilization rates
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 13:49
in Earth & Climate
In this week`s issue of Science, a team of researchers from the United States and Sweden report on a newly identified factor that controls the natural input of new nitrogen into boreal forest ecosystems. Nitrogen is the primary nutrient that dictates productivity (and thus carbon consumption) in boreal forests.
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