The influence of seabird manuring on the phosphorus status of Marion Island (Subantarctic) soils

Oecologia - Tập 41 - Trang 123-126 - 1979
Valdon R. Smith1
1Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of the O.F.S., Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa

Tóm tắt

Manuring by penguins, wandering albatrosses and burrowing petrel and prion species substantially enhances P concentrations in Marion Island soils and plants. Non-manured soils contain low levels of plant-available P on a soil volume basis but the evidence suggests that the island soils are primarily deficient in N rather than P.

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