NUTRIENT LOSS ACCELERATED BY CLEAR-CUTTING OF A FOREST ECOSYSTEM

被引:200
作者
BORMANN, FH
LIKENS, GE
FISHER, DW
PIERCE, RS
机构
[1] School of Forestry, Yale University, New Haven
[2] Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover
[3] U.S. Geological Survey, Washington
[4] Northeastern Forest Experimental Station, U.S. Forest Service, Durham, NH
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D O I
10.1126/science.159.3817.882
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The forest of a small watershed-ecosystem was cut in order to determine the effects of removal of vegetation on nutrient cycles. Relative to undisturbed ecosystems, the cut ecosystem exhibited accelerated loss of nutrients: nitrogen lost during the first year after cutting was equivalent to the amount annually turned over in an undisturbed system, and losses of cations were 3 to 20 times greater than from comparable undisturbed systems. Possible causes of the pattern of nutrient loss from the cut ecosystem are discussed.
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