Forest defoliator pests alter carbon and nitrogen cycles

Climate change may foster pest epidemics in forests, and thereby the fluxes of elements that are indicators of ecosystem functioning. We examined compounds of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in insect faeces, leaf litter, throughfall and analysed the soils of deciduous oak forests (Quercus petraea L.) t...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Royal Society open science 2016-10, Vol.3 (10), p.160361
Hauptverfasser:	l-M-Arnold, Anne, Grüning, Maren, Simon, Judy, Reinhardt, Annett-Barbara, Lamersdorf, Norbert, Thies, Carsten
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biology (whole Organism) C- And N-Cycle Climate Change Defoliation Disturbance Forest Pest Temperate Forest
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