High altitude tropical secondary forests: a competitive carbon sink?

Fehse, J.; Hofstede, Robert; Aguirre, Nikolai; Paladines, Chémel; Kooijman, A.M.; Sevink, J.

doi:10.1016/s0378-1127(01)00535-7

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“…For species richness, some authors have shown that tropical lowlands with high and evenly distributed rainfall present high species richness (Gentry 1992), which is the case in the northern and eastern lowlands of Costa Rica. The same contrast between lowlands and mountains is not observed for carbon storage in vegetation: it is high in wet or moist lowland forests, medium in the mountain forests, and low in dry lowland forests of the country, as confirmed by other studies in the tropics (Fehse et al 2002;Raich et al 2006;Keith et al 2009). …”

Section: Explaining Spatial Relationships Between Servicessupporting

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Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

Locatelli

Imbach

Wunder³

2013

Envir. Conserv.

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Environmental Conservation 41 (1): 27-36 C Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2013. The online version of this article is published within an open access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence . The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use. doi:10.1017/S0376892913000234 Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

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Section: Explaining Spatial Relationships Between Servicessupporting

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Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

Locatelli

Imbach

Wunder³

2013

Envir. Conserv.

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“…The absolute highest previous reports of mycorrhizal fungi were in South America where Barnola and Montilla (1997) found AM fungi at 3800 m in the Sierra de la Culata, Venezuela, and Fehse et al (2002) found mycorrhizal Polylepis trees in Ecuador at elevations of up to 3600 m.…”

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Mycorrhizal and Dark-Septate Fungi in Plant Roots Above 4270 Meters Elevation in the Andes and Rocky Mountains

Schmidt

Sobieniak-Wiseman

Kageyama

et al. 2008

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

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“…6). Estimating V cmax accurately is important when modeling GPP (Kattge et al 2009), and even though TMCFs only cover up to 11% of tropical forests worldwide (Doumenge et al 1995), the interest in the C cycle of TMCFs with regard to carbon sequestration and storage practices has increased substantially in recent years (e.g., Fehse et al 2002;Martínez et al 2009;Zimmermann et al 2010;Gibbon et al 2010). The results reported here could therefore be used to improve the accuracy in estimates of TMCF C uptake.…”

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Photosynthetic parameters, dark respiration and leaf traits in the canopy of a Peruvian tropical montane cloud forest

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Few data are available describing the photosynthetic parameters of the leaves of tropical montane cloud forests (TMCF). Here, we present a study of photosynthetic leaf traits (V(cmax) and J(max)), foliar dark respiration (R(d)), foliar nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), and leaf mass per area (LMA) throughout the canopy for five different TMCF species at 3025 m a.s.l. in Andean Peru. All leaf traits showed a significant relationship with canopy height when expressed on an area basis, and V(cmax-area) and J(max-area) almost halved when descending through the TMCF canopy. When corrected to a common temperature, average V(cmax) and J(max) on a leaf area basis were similar to lowland tropical values, but lower when expressed on a mass basis, because of the higher TMCF LMA values. By contrast, R(d) on an area basis was higher than found in tropical lowland forests at a common temperature, and similar to lowland forests on a mass basis. The TMCF J(max)-V(cmax) relationship was steeper than in other tropical biomes, and we propose that this can be explained by either the light conditions or the relatively low VPD in the studied TMCF. Furthermore, V(cmax) had a significant-though relatively weak and shallow-relationship with N on an area basis, but not with P, which is consistent with the general hypothesis that TMCFs are N rather than P limited. Finally, the observed V(cmax)-N relationship (i.e., maximum photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency) was distinctly different from those in tropical and temperate regions, probably because the TMCF leaves compensate for reduced Rubisco activity in cool environments.

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High altitude tropical secondary forests: a competitive carbon sink?

Cited by 77 publications

References 34 publications

Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica

Mycorrhizal and Dark-Septate Fungi in Plant Roots Above 4270 Meters Elevation in the Andes and Rocky Mountains

Photosynthetic parameters, dark respiration and leaf traits in the canopy of a Peruvian tropical montane cloud forest

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