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Phosphorus Nutrition of Forest Plantations: The Role of Inorganic and Organic Phosphorus

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Fertilization with P is a common silvicultural practice in forest plantations where large and sustained growth responses frequently occur following P fertilization. Inorganic P is tightly sorbed in many forest soils and, consequently, labile P is low. Trees have evolved a variety of mechanisms to acquire P in soils with low P availability. This includes release of low molecular weight organic acids into the rhizosphere. Significant quantities of organic P also exist in the forest floor and mineral horizons of forest soils that can contribute to P nutrition of forests. There are several mechanisms whereby organic P in the forest floor and the mineral soil may become available to forest trees. These include uptake of organic P by mycorrhizae and mineralization of organic P.

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    Thomas R. Fox

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    Bradley W. Miller

  3. Departamento de Silvicultura, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

    Rafael Rubilar

  4. Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, 3108 Jordan Hall, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

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  5. Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, 3108 Jordan Hall, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

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Fox, T.R., Miller, B.W., Rubilar, R., Stape, J.L., Albaugh, T.J. (2011). Phosphorus Nutrition of Forest Plantations: The Role of Inorganic and Organic Phosphorus. In: Bünemann, E., Oberson, A., Frossard, E. (eds) Phosphorus in Action. Soil Biology, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15271-9_13

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