It is just possible that Joe Wright at STRI has done this kind of experiment. He has done some watering experiments and found that even in a tropical rainforest, water limitation can act to influence species composition and so forth.
Cheers, Jim On 2/1/07, Jonathan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For a long time I've heard people talk about the effects of adding minera= l > fertilizers to grasslands - how it causes a crash in species richness. > > Has anyone ever tried adding mineral fertilizer to tropical forest and > studying (say) the species diversity of seedlings, or long term effects o= n > regeneration? > > It may be interesting from the point of view of understanding maintainanc= e > of species richness. > > Examining effects on growth rate of tropical trees might also be relevant > to the idea of setting up artificial forests for carbon sequestration. > > Jonathan Adams > --=20 James J. Roper Depto Zoologia,UFPR Caixa Postal 19034 81531-990 Curitiba, Paran=E1, Brasil =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone/Fone/Tel=E9fono: 55 41 33611764 celular: 55 41 99870543 Casa: 55 41 33857249 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D http://jjroper.googlepages.com/ Ecologia e Conserva=E7=E3o na UFPR http://www.bio.ufpr.br/ecologia/ ---
