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Bryophyte and lichen biomass and nitrogen fixation in a high elevation cloud forest in Cerro de La M...

Bryophyte and lichen biomass and nitrogen fixation in a high elevation cloud forest in Cerro de La M...

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Bryophyte and lichen biomass and nitrogen fixation in a high elevation cloud forest in Cerro de La Muerte, Costa Rica

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Bryophyte and lichen biomass and nitrogen fixation in a high elevation cloud forest in Cerro de La Muerte, Costa Rica

Publisher

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Science + Business Media

Journal title

Oecologia, 2021-02, Vol.195 (2), p.489-497

Language

English

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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Science + Business Media

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Contents

Cloud forests have been found to lose more nitrogen in stream discharge than they gain from atmospheric deposition. They also support a large diversity and biomass of tree epiphytes, predominately composed of cryptogams. Since cryptogam epiphytes harbor nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria, they may help make up for the nitrogen loss from ecosystems. We a...

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Bryophyte and lichen biomass and nitrogen fixation in a high elevation cloud forest in Cerro de La Muerte, Costa Rica

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2475096198

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2475096198

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ISSN

0029-8549

E-ISSN

1432-1939

DOI

10.1007/s00442-020-04840-4

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