Plant traits and litter decomposition of tree species naturally regenerating in Central America pasturelands

This research uses three consecutive approaches to evaluate the links among morphological diversity and ecosystem processes of 65 tree species commonly found in Central American active pasturelands (AP) under conventional management practices. Firstly, we explore tree morphological diversity measuri...

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Main Author:	Esquivel Sheik, María J.
Format:	Tesis
Language:	Español
Published:	CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) 2014
Subjects:	ARBOLES ESPECIES REGENERACION NATURAL HOJARASCA BIODEGRADACION TIERRAS DE PASTOS METODOS ESTADISTICOS
Online Access:	https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/5422

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spelling	RepoCATIE54222023-08-15T16:28:48Z Plant traits and litter decomposition of tree species naturally regenerating in Central America pasturelands Esquivel Sheik, María J. ARBOLES ESPECIES REGENERACION NATURAL HOJARASCA BIODEGRADACION TIERRAS DE PASTOS METODOS ESTADISTICOS This research uses three consecutive approaches to evaluate the links among morphological diversity and ecosystem processes of 65 tree species commonly found in Central American active pasturelands (AP) under conventional management practices. Firstly, we explore tree morphological diversity measuring 17 plant traits (PT) to describe the functional strategies (FS) of tree species in agricultural lands. Secondly, we explore tree responses to anthropogenic disturbances like conventional pasture management testing the relationships of tree morphological diversity with tree abundances and exploring their relative utility to predict tree natural regeneration capacity (CNR) in agricultural lands. Thirdly, we test whether tree species variability in litter quality, decomposition rates and nutrient releases was related with tree morphological diversity and tree abundances to explore the effects of tree characteristics on litter quality, decomposition rates and nutrient releases was related with tree morphological diversity and tree abundances to explore the effects of tree characteristics on litter decomposition. This approximation allows exploring for the first time the effects of tree variability on ecosysteMON processes in anthropogenic environments and the possible effects of actual management over today and future provision of ecosystem services (ES) such as soil fertility replenishment and nutrient cycling offered by trees outside the remnant tropical forests. 2014-10-20T05:28:43Z 2014-10-20T05:28:43Z 2013 Tesis de doctorado 387469 https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/5422 : Turrialba (Costa Rica) es application/pdf CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica)
institution	Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
collection	Repositorio CATIE
language	Español
topic	ARBOLES ESPECIES REGENERACION NATURAL HOJARASCA BIODEGRADACION TIERRAS DE PASTOS METODOS ESTADISTICOS
spellingShingle	ARBOLES ESPECIES REGENERACION NATURAL HOJARASCA BIODEGRADACION TIERRAS DE PASTOS METODOS ESTADISTICOS Esquivel Sheik, María J. Plant traits and litter decomposition of tree species naturally regenerating in Central America pasturelands
description	This research uses three consecutive approaches to evaluate the links among morphological diversity and ecosystem processes of 65 tree species commonly found in Central American active pasturelands (AP) under conventional management practices. Firstly, we explore tree morphological diversity measuring 17 plant traits (PT) to describe the functional strategies (FS) of tree species in agricultural lands. Secondly, we explore tree responses to anthropogenic disturbances like conventional pasture management testing the relationships of tree morphological diversity with tree abundances and exploring their relative utility to predict tree natural regeneration capacity (CNR) in agricultural lands. Thirdly, we test whether tree species variability in litter quality, decomposition rates and nutrient releases was related with tree morphological diversity and tree abundances to explore the effects of tree characteristics on litter quality, decomposition rates and nutrient releases was related with tree morphological diversity and tree abundances to explore the effects of tree characteristics on litter decomposition. This approximation allows exploring for the first time the effects of tree variability on ecosysteMON processes in anthropogenic environments and the possible effects of actual management over today and future provision of ecosystem services (ES) such as soil fertility replenishment and nutrient cycling offered by trees outside the remnant tropical forests.
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author	Esquivel Sheik, María J.
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title	Plant traits and litter decomposition of tree species naturally regenerating in Central America pasturelands
title_short	Plant traits and litter decomposition of tree species naturally regenerating in Central America pasturelands
title_full	Plant traits and litter decomposition of tree species naturally regenerating in Central America pasturelands
title_fullStr	Plant traits and litter decomposition of tree species naturally regenerating in Central America pasturelands
title_full_unstemmed	Plant traits and litter decomposition of tree species naturally regenerating in Central America pasturelands
title_sort	plant traits and litter decomposition of tree species naturally regenerating in central america pasturelands
publisher	CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica)
publishDate	2014
url	https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/5422
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Plant traits and litter decomposition of tree species naturally regenerating in Central America pasturelands

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