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Rainforest – Links and References

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• https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/habitats/rainforests

References

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Benson, LJ & Pearson, RG (1993), 'Litter inputs to a tropical Australian rainforest stream', Australian Journal of Ecology, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 377-383.

 

Bowman, DMJS, Cook, GD & Zoppi, U (2004), 'Holocene boundary dynamics of a northern Australian monsoon rainforest patch inferred from isotopic analysis of carbon, (14C and d13C) and nitrogen (d15N) in soil organic matter', Austral Ecology, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 605-612.

 

Brodie, JE & Mitchell, AW (2005), 'Nutrients in Australian tropical rivers : changes with agricultural development and implications for receiving environments', Marine and Freshwater Research, vol. 56, pp. 279-302.

 

Brookshire, ENJ, Hedin, LO, Newbold, JD, Sigman, DM & Jackson, JK (February 2012), 'Sustained losses of bioavailable nitrogen from montane tropical forests', Nature Geoscience. [online], vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 123-126. Available at: http://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo1372 [Accessed 2 November 2020].

 

Connolly, NM, Pearson, RG, Loong, D, Maughan, M & Brodie, J (2015), 'Water quality variation along streams with similar agricultural development but contrasting riparian vegetation', Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. [online], vol. 213, no. x, pp. 11-20. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2015.07.007.

 

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Farnkranz, M, Wanek, W, Richter, A, Abell, G, Rasche, F & Sessitsch, A (2008), 'Nitrogen fixation by phyllosphere bacteria associated with higher plants and their colonizing epiphytes of a tropical lowland rainforest of Costa Rica', ISME Journal, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 561-570.

 

Gehring, C, Vlek, PLG, De Souza, LAG & Denich, M (2005), 'Biological nitrogen fixation in secondary regrowth and mature rainforest of central Amazonia', Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, vol. 111, no. 1-4, pp. 237-252.

 

Gell, P, Fluin, J, Tibby, J, Hancock, G, Harrison, J, Zawadzki, A, Haynes, D, Khanum, S, Little, F & Walsh, B (July 2009), 'Anthropogenic acceleration of sediment accretion in lowland floodplain wetlands, Murray–Darling Basin, Australia', Geomorphology. [online], vol. 108, no. 1-2, pp. 122-126. Available at: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169555X09000397 [Accessed 2 November 2020].

 

Gillman, GP, Sinclair, DF, Knowlton, R & Keys, MG (1985), 'The effect of some soil chemical properties of the selective logging of a north Queensland rainforest', Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 12, no. 3-4, pp. 195-214.

 

Harris, GP (2001), 'Biogeochemistry of nitrogen and phosphorus in Australian catchments, rivers and estuaries: effects of land use and flow regulation and comparisons with global patterns', Marine and Freshwater Research. [online], vol. 52, no. 1, p. 139. Available at: http://www.publish.csiro.au/?paper=MF00031 [Accessed 4 November 2020].

 

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Houlton, BZ, Sigman, DM & Hedin, LO (2006), 'Isotopic evidence for large gaseous nitrogen losses from tropical rainforests', PNAS, vol. 103, no. 23, pp. 8745-8750.

 

Kiese, R, Hewett, B & Butterbach-bahl, K (2008), 'Seasonal dynamic of gross nitrification and N2O emission at two tropical rainforest sites in Queensland, Australia', Plant and Soil, vol. 309, pp. 105-117.

 

Maggs, J (1991), 'Nitrogen mineralization and nitrification in rainforests of contrasting nutrient status and physiognomic structure near Lake Eacham, northeast Queensland', Austral Ecology, vol. 16, pp. 47-51.

 

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Parrota, JA, Baker, DD & Fried, M (1994), 'Application of 15N-enrichment methodologies to estimate nitrogen fixation in Casuarina equisetifolia', Canadian Journal of Forest Research, vol. 24, pp. 201-207.

 

Phoenix, GK, Hicks, W, Cinderby, S, Kuylenstierna, J, Stock, W, Dentener, F, Giller, K, Austin, A, Lefroy, R, Gimeno, B, Ashmore, M & Ineson, P (2006), 'Atmospheric nitrogen deposition in world biodiversity hotspots: the need for a greater global perspective in assessing N deposition impacts', Global Change Biology, vol. 12, pp. 470-476.

 

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Last updated: 3 March 2021