The Sikfokut forest dirt study: early results from a successful LTER/ILTER cross-site collaboration
2002
Vanderbilt, K. (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (USA). Department of Biology) | Toth, J. A. | Caldwell, B. | Bowden, R. | Lajtha, K.
A DIRT (Detritus Input and Removal Treatments) experiment was initiated at the Sikfokut Forest LTER site in Hungary in November 2000. This study was designed to evaluate how sources and quantities of litter inputs control nutrient cycling and carbon storage in forest soils across sites with different climate, C and N status. Sikfokut Forest was selected for its high N deposition rate compared the Harvard Forest LTER, Bousson Forest and Andrews Forest LTER DIRT experiment sites in the United States. Trends in soil enzyme phosphatase and beta-glucosidase activity at Sikfokut indicate that the microbial community there is already clearly responding to reduced litter availability after only two years of treatment
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