Multiple nutrients constrain fine root functioning in a lowland tropical rainforest: initial responses from a large-scale nutrient manipulation experiment in Central Amazonia


Laynara Figueiredo Lugli1, Jessica S Rosa1, Kelly M Andersen2, Lina M Mercado3, Beto Quesada1, Renata V de Almeida4, Luiz Aragao5, Rafael L de Assis4, Jose L Camargo6, Amanda Longhi Cordeiro7, Hellen F. V. Cunha1, Raffaello di Ponzio4, Lucia Fuchslueger8, Patrick Meir9, Karst Schaap10 and Iain P Hartley11, (1)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, (2)Nanyang Technological Institute, Singapore, Singapore, (3)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Manaus, Brazil, (5)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Remote Sensing Division, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (6)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Manaus, Brazil, (7)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (8)University of Vienna, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Vienna, Austria, (9)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (10)INPA, Manaus, Brazil, (11)University of Exeter, Department of Geography, Exeter, United Kingdom