| |
| Web URL(s): | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1017922715903
Last checked: 09/27/2017
Access conditions: Item is within a limited-access website
Notes: Guide page |
|---|
| Publication Type:
| Refereed |
|---|
| Author(s): | Venterink, H. Olde;
van der Vliet, R. E.;
Wassen, M. J. |
|---|
| Author Affiliation: | Environmental Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
|---|
| Title: | Nutrient limitation along a productivity gradient in wet meadows |
|---|
| Source: | Plant and Soil. Vol. 234, No. 2, July 2001, p. 171-179. |
|---|
| Publishing Information: | Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers |
|---|
| # of Pages: | 9 |
|---|
| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Nutrient deficiency; Pastures; Conservation; Soil fertility; Fertilization
|
|---|
| Abstract/Contents: | "Conservation management in meadows often focuses on reducing soil fertility and consequently community productivity as to promote and sustain species-rich vegatations. The productivity level to which nutrients are limiting growth is, however, unclear, as well as the relationship between productivity and the type of nutrient limitation. We carried out a fertilization experiment with N, P and K in six annually mown meadows along an aerial phytomass gradient (200-650 g m-2). All meadows were found to be growth-limited by nutrients. Low-productive meadows were N-limited, or N+P co-limited, whereas our higher productive meadows were co-limited by a combination of N, P and/or K. The results from our experiments were compared with the results from 45 other fertilization experiments with N, P and K in grasslands and wetlands (aerial phytomass range 50-1500 g m-2). Our results were consistent in nitrogen being the most frequent (co)-limiting nutrient, and regarding the equal frequence of occurrence of P (co)-limitation and K (co)-limitation (both in ca. 25-30% of all sites). Co-limitation occurred more often in our sites than in the other experiments. There was no clear relationship between aerial phytomass and type of nutrient limitation, except that K (co)-limitation only occurred at sites with phytomass above 200 g m-2, and P (co)-limitation below 600 g m-2. A comparison of productivity and nutrient concentrations in aerial phytomass among two years indicated that the type of nutrient limitation is not a static site characteristic but may vary with dynamic environemtnal conditions such as soil wetness; drought seems to enhance N-availability which may induce P- and K- limitation." |
|---|
| Language: | English |
|---|
| References: | 45 |
|---|
| Note: | Tables
Graphs |
|---|
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Venterink, H. O., R. E. van der Vliet, and M. J. Wassen. 2001. Nutrient limitation along a productivity gradient in wet meadows. Plant Soil. 234(2):p. 171-179. |
| Fastlink to access this record outside TGIF: https://tic.msu.edu/tgif/flink?recno=76609 |
| If there are problems with this record, send us feedback about record 76609. |
| Choices for finding the above item: |
|---|
| Web URL(s):
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1017922715903
Last checked: 09/27/2017
Access conditions: Item is within a limited-access website
Notes: Guide page |
| 
MSU catalog number: SB 13 .P55 |
| Find from within TIC:
Digitally in TIC by record number. |
| Request through your local library's inter-library loan service (bring or send a copy of this TGIF record) |
