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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3649-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3649-2022
Research article
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05 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 05 Aug 2022

Contrasting strategies of nutrient demand and use between savanna and forest ecosystems in a neotropical transition zone

Marina Corrêa Scalon, Imma Oliveras Menor, Renata Freitag, Karine S. Peixoto, Sami W. Rifai, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, and Yadvinder Malhi

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We investigated dynamic nutrient flow and demand in a typical savanna and a transition forest to understand how similar soils and the same climate dominated by savanna vegetation can also support forest-like formations. Savanna relied on nutrient resorption from wood, and nutrient demand was equally partitioned between leaves, wood and fine roots. Transition forest relied on resorption from the canopy biomass and nutrient demand was predominantly driven by leaves.
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