Keyword

nutrient return

Description: The transfer of nutrients from plant biomass back to soil or ecosystems, commonly through litterfall and decomposition in forests.

Primary topic: Environmental and biological studies (58%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/nutrient-return

Role of manures and crop residue in alleviating soil fertility constraints to crop production: With special reference to the Sahelian and Sudanian zones of West Africa

1991 · A. Bationo, A. U. Mokwunye · Springer eBooks · 234

Impact of herbivores on nitrogen cycling: contrasting effects of small and large species

2003 · E. S. Bakker, H. Olff, et al. · Oecologia · 212

Comparisons of litterfall, litter decomposition and nutrient return in a monoculture Cunninghamia lanceolata and a mixed stand in southern China

2007 · Qingkui Wang, Silong Wang, et al. · Forest Ecology and Management · 202

Species’ traits predict the effects of disturbance and productivity on diversity

2008 · Nick M. Haddad, Marcel Holyoak, et al. · Ecology Letters · 178

Litterfall and nutrient return in five tree species in a common garden experiment

2009 · Karin Hansen, Lars Vesterdal, et al. · Forest Ecology and Management · 171

Studies of Litter in Eucalyptus regnans Forests

1975 · DH Ashton · Australian Journal of Botany · 171

Litter production and nutrient cycling in coffee (Coffea arabica) or cacao (Theobroma cacao) plantations with shade trees

1988 · John Beer · Agroforestry Systems · 147

Nutrient cycling and distribution in different-aged plantations of Chinese fir in southern China

2007 · Xiangqing Ma, Kate V. Heal, et al. · Forest Ecology and Management · 143

Litterfall, nutrient return, and leaf-litter decomposition in four plantations compared with a natural forest in subtropical China

2004 · Yu Sheng Yang, Jian Fen Guo, et al. · Annals of Forest Science · 131

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Parasitic plants as facilitators: more Dryad than Dracula?

2009 · David M. Watson · Journal of Ecology · 127

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Dynamics of organic matter and nutrient return from litterfall in stands of ten tropical tree plantation species

1998 · Elvira Cuevas, Ariel E. Lugo · Forest Ecology and Management · 123

Nutrient Cycling in a Eucalyptus obliqua (L'hérit.) Forest. I. Litter Production and Nutrient Return

1978 · PM Attiwill, HB Guthrie, et al. · Australian Journal of Botany · 118

Litterfall production and nutrient return to the forest floor in Scots pine and Norway spruce stands in Finland

2024 · Ukonmaanaho, Liisa, Merilä, Päivi, et al. · Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)) · 112

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Nutrient return to the forest floor through litter and throughfall under 7 forest species after conversion from Norway spruce

2013 · Monique Carnol, Masoud Bazgir · Forest Ecology and Management · 112

Nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in relation to stand age of Ecucalyptus regnans F. Muell

1992 · P. J. Polglase, P. M. Attiwill · Plant and Soil · 103

Litter production, leaf litter decomposition and nutrient return in Cunninghamia lanceolata plantations in south China: effect of planting conifers with broadleaved species

2007 · Qingkui Wang, Silong Wang, et al. · Plant and Soil · 97

Conversion of tropical lowland forest reduces nutrient return through litterfall, and alters nutrient use efficiency and seasonality of net primary production

2015 · Martyna M. Kotowska, Christoph Leuschner, et al. · Oecologia · 94

Circular economy monitoring – How to make it apt for biological cycles?

2021 · Kranti Navare, Bart Muys, et al. · Resources Conservation and Recycling · 87

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Nutrient return in litter and rainfall under some exotic conifer stands in New Zealand

1959 · G. M. Will · New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research · 87

Litterfall and nutrient return in seasonally flooded and non-flooded forest of the Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil

1999 · Rainer Haase · Forest Ecology and Management · 82

Nutrient Cycling in a Eucalyptus Obliqua (L'hérit.) Forest [in Victoria]. Iv. Nutrient Uptake and Nutrient Return

1980 · PM Attiwill · Australian Journal of Botany · 80

Interactions between C : N : P stoichiometry and soil macrofauna control dung decomposition of savanna herbivores

2013 · Judith Sitters, Marc‐Jacques Maechler, et al. · Functional Ecology · 79

Litter fluxes and decomposition in Nothofagus pumilio stands in the region of Magallanes, Chile

2001 · J Caldentey, M Ibarra, et al. · Forest Ecology and Management · 78

Vegetation and Soil Responses to Grazing Simulation on Riparian Meadows

1995 · Warren P. Clary · Journal of Range Management · 77

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Nutrient return via litterfall in two contrasting Pinus sylvestris forests in the Pyrenees under different thinning intensities

2008 · Juan A. Blanco, J. Bosco Imbert, et al. · Forest Ecology and Management · 72

Works count: 502

Citation count: 6,204