Fire-derived phosphorus fertilization of African tropical forests
Nowhere is biomass burning more abundant than on the African continent, but the biogeochemical impacts on forests are poorly understood. Here the authors show that biomass burning leads to high phosphorus deposition in the Congo basin, which scales with forest age as a result of increasing canopy co...
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| author | Marijn Bauters Travis W. Drake Sasha Wagner Simon Baumgartner Isaac A. Makelele Samuel Bodé Kris Verheyen Hans Verbeeck Corneille Ewango Landry Cizungu Kristof Van Oost Pascal Boeckx |
| author_facet | Marijn Bauters Travis W. Drake Sasha Wagner Simon Baumgartner Isaac A. Makelele Samuel Bodé Kris Verheyen Hans Verbeeck Corneille Ewango Landry Cizungu Kristof Van Oost Pascal Boeckx |
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| description | Nowhere is biomass burning more abundant than on the African continent, but the biogeochemical impacts on forests are poorly understood. Here the authors show that biomass burning leads to high phosphorus deposition in the Congo basin, which scales with forest age as a result of increasing canopy complexity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9d48e1df78034b85bcf3ba3741fa1efe2022-12-21T23:00:46ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232021-08-011211810.1038/s41467-021-25428-3Fire-derived phosphorus fertilization of African tropical forestsMarijn Bauters0Travis W. Drake1Sasha Wagner2Simon Baumgartner3Isaac A. Makelele4Samuel Bodé5Kris Verheyen6Hans Verbeeck7Corneille Ewango8Landry Cizungu9Kristof Van Oost10Pascal Boeckx11Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ghent UniversityDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH ZurichDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDepartment of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ghent UniversityDepartment of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ghent UniversityDepartment of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ghent UniversityDepartment of Environment, Ghent UniversityDepartment of Environment, Ghent UniversityFaculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management, University of KisanganiSoil Science Laboratory, Faculty of Agronomy, Université Catholique de BukavuEarth and Life Institute, UCLouvainDepartment of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ghent UniversityNowhere is biomass burning more abundant than on the African continent, but the biogeochemical impacts on forests are poorly understood. Here the authors show that biomass burning leads to high phosphorus deposition in the Congo basin, which scales with forest age as a result of increasing canopy complexity.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25428-3 |
| spellingShingle | Marijn Bauters Travis W. Drake Sasha Wagner Simon Baumgartner Isaac A. Makelele Samuel Bodé Kris Verheyen Hans Verbeeck Corneille Ewango Landry Cizungu Kristof Van Oost Pascal Boeckx Fire-derived phosphorus fertilization of African tropical forests Nature Communications |
| title | Fire-derived phosphorus fertilization of African tropical forests |
| title_full | Fire-derived phosphorus fertilization of African tropical forests |
| title_fullStr | Fire-derived phosphorus fertilization of African tropical forests |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fire-derived phosphorus fertilization of African tropical forests |
| title_short | Fire-derived phosphorus fertilization of African tropical forests |
| title_sort | fire derived phosphorus fertilization of african tropical forests |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25428-3 |
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