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Nutrient cycling and limitation : Hawaiʻi as a model system / Peter Vitousek.

by Vitousek, Peter Morrison, author.

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Oxford ; Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2004]

Ecology -- Hawaii.

Nutrient cycles -- Hawaii.

9780691115801 (paperback)

069111580X (paperback)

Princeton Environmental Institute series.

xx, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The availability or lack of nutrients shapes ecosystems in fundamental ways. From forest productivity to soil fertility, from the diversity of animals to the composition of microbial communities, nutrient cycling and limitation are the basic mechanisms underlying ecosystem ecology. In this book, Peter Vitousek builds on over twenty years of research in Hawai'i to evaluate the controls and consequences of variation in nutrient availability and limitation. Integrating research from geochemistry, pedology, atmospheric chemistry, ecophysiology, and ecology, Vitousek addresses fundamental questions: How do the cycles of different he mechanisms that shape productivity and diversity in ecosystems throughout the world. It will be essential reading for all ecologists and environmental scientists.

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