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Nutrient budget in ecosystems

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Methods to calculate nutrient budgets in forest and grassland ecosystems are analyzed on the basis of a large number of published materials and original data. New estimates of the belowground production in forest ecosystems with due account for the growth of fine roots are suggested. Nutrient retranslocation from senescent plant tissues to growing plant tissues and nutrient leaching from the forest canopy are discussed. The budgets of major nutrients (N, P, K, and Ca) in tundra, forest, and steppe ecosystems are calculated. Nutrient cycles in two forest ecosystems—a coniferous stand dominated by Picea abies and a broad-leaved stand dominated by Quercus robur—are analyzed in detail. It is shown that the more intensive turnover of nutrients in the oak stand is also characterized by a more closed character of the nutrient cycles.

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Titlyanova, 2007, published in Pochvovedenie, 2007, No. 12, pp. 1422–1430.

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Titlyanova, A.A. Nutrient budget in ecosystems. Eurasian Soil Sc. 40, 1270–1278 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229307120034

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