Nutrient Cycling in Forests and beyond—towards Integrating Different Approaches
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2021) | Viewed by 3121
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Interests: ecological stoichiometry; biogeochemistry; ecosystem ecology; food webs; trophic interactions; food chain; nutrient cycling; nutritional ecology; plant-insect interactions; life history; bee; wild bees; xylophages, saproxylophages; fungi
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Interests: plant–soil–fungal interactions; nutrient cycling; ecosystem ecology; tropical ecology; ecosystem disturbance and recovery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrient cycling is an endless biogeochemical process involving transfer of nutrients through cells, organisms, communities, ecosystems, and finally the biosphere. It interacts with food web dynamics via an array of biochemical reactions performed by living organisms to live and reproduce. In these reactions, a countless number of mutable molecules are being built and degraded based on immutable atoms of approximately twenty-five chemical elements. We have knowledge of nutrient cycling in forests, from rocks and soil, through microorganisms, plants, and various components of food webs into dead matter that is decomposed and recycled again and again. Studies of nutrient cycling allowed us to understand that specific nutrients are being moved in specific proportions within and between ecosystems, for example, in animal bodies, plant seeds, or pollen rain, sometimes in great amounts. This knowledge, however, is scattered and disorganized, and a synergistic approach, linking various levels of organization and different frameworks, is needed to elucidate mechanisms shaping nutrient cycles in forests. Therefore, in this Special Issue, studies including, but not limited to, ecological stoichiometry, nutritional geometry, and omics, and covering all levels of organization, from cells to ecosystems, will be accepted. Publications synergistically linking various approaches are especially welcome.
Dr. Michał Filipiak
Dr. Francis Q. Brearley
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nutrient cycling
- ecological interactions
- food webs
- food chain
- consumer
- nutritional ecology
- trophic ecology
- trophic interactions
- nutritional limitation
- ecosystem ecology
- decomposition
- mineralization
- ecological stoichiometry
- nutritional geometry
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