What governs nitrogen loss from forest soils?

Tom Addiscott () and Phil Brookes
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Tom Addiscott: Rothamsted Research
Phil Brookes: Rothamsted Research

Nature, 2002, vol. 418, issue 6898, 604-604

Abstract: Abstract Nitrogen is lost as dissolved organic compounds in stream waters from unpolluted South American forests, but it is lost mainly as inorganic nitrate in streams flowing from North American forests that suffer nitrogen deposition from the atmosphere1. From this it has been inferred that the standard thinking about how nature deals with nitrogen in soils and waters2 needs to be re-evaluated and that the conventional wisdom of how nitrogen is absorbed and released by plants3 must be wrong. We disagree, however, on the grounds that there are other, more likely interpretations of the new results1.

Date: 2002
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