Albert Gargallo-Garriga, Jordi Sardans, Joan Llusià, Guille Peguero, Marta Ayala-Roque, Elodie A Courtois, Clément Stahl, Otmar Urban, Karel Klem, Pau Nolis, Miriam Pérez-Trujillo, Teodor Parella, Andreas Richter, Ivan A Janssens, Josep Peñuelas
BACKGROUND: The availability of soil phosphorus (P) often limits the productivities of wet tropical lowland forests. Little is known, however, about the metabolomic profile of different chemical P compounds with potentially different uses and about the cycling of P and their variability across space under different tree species in highly diverse tropical rainforests. RESULTS: We hypothesised that the different strategies of the competing tree species to retranslocate, mineralise, mobilise, and take up P from the soil would promote distinct soil 31 P profiles...
April 12, 2024: BMC Plant Biology