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Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function
Centre for Tropical Environment and Sustainability Sciences (TESS) and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, 4870, Qld, Australia
Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
T. F. Domingues
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Av Bandeirantes, 3900, CEP 14040-901, Bairro Monte Alegre, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
F. Schrodt
iDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Postfach 10 0164, 07701 Jena, Germany
F. Y. Ishida
Centre for Tropical Environment and Sustainability Sciences (TESS) and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, 4870, Qld, Australia
T. R. Feldpausch
Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, UK
G. Saiz
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, 82467, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
C. A. Quesada
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Cx Postal 2223 – CEP 69080-971, Brazil
M. Schwarz
Fieldwork Assistance, PSF 101022, 07710, Jena, Germany
M. Torello-Raventos
Centre for Tropical Environment and Sustainability Sciences (TESS) and College of Science Technology and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Qld, Australia
M. Gilpin
School of Geography, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK
B. S. Marimon
Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Br 158, Km 655, Antiga FAB, Nova Xavantina, MT. CEP 78690-00, Brazil
B. H. Marimon-Junior
Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Br 158, Km 655, Antiga FAB, Nova Xavantina, MT. CEP 78690-00, Brazil
J. A. Ratter
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, EH3 5NZ, Scotland, UK
J. Grace
School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, Scotland, UK
G. B. Nardoto
Campus Darcy Ribeiro – Prédio da FACE Brasília, Distrito Federal, 70910-900, Brazil
E. Veenendaal
Centre for Ecosystem Studies, University of Wageningen, P.O. Box 47, 6700AA, Wageningen, the Netherlands
L. Arroyo
Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Avenidas Centenario, Venezuela y Av. 26 de Febrero 56 Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
D. Villarroel
Museo Noel Kempff Mercado, Av. Irala no 565 – casilla 2489, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
T. J. Killeen
Agrotecnologica Amazonica, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
M. Steininger
formerly at: Conservation International, Washington D.C., USA
O. L. Phillips
School of Geography, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK
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Across tropical South America, forest soils are typically of a higher cation status than their savanna equivalents with soil exchangeable potassium a key soil nutrient differentiating these two vegetation types. Differences in soil water storage capacity are also important – interacting with both potassium availability and precipitation regimes in a relatively complex manner.
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