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Science 27 January 1984:
Vol. 223. no. 4634, pp. 391 - 393
DOI: 10.1126/science.223.4634.391
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Phosphorus Cycling in a Northern Hardwood Forest: Biological and Chemical Control

TIM WOOD 1, F. H. BORMANN 2, and G. K. VOIGT 2

1 Native Plants, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
2 School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511

Phosphorus is tightly conserved within the northern hardwood forest ecosystems at Hubbard Brook, New Hampshire. Detailed analyses of the soil system indicate that biological and geochemical processes, stratified within the profile, regulate phosphorus retention.

Submitted on August 8, 1983
Accepted on November 1, 1983


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