Chapter 3: Ecoregion 5.3.1 Northern Appalachian and Atlantic Maritime Highlands: Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire

Abstract

Element biogeochemistry in streams has a long record of study at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) corresponding to the studies of watershed element cycling. Much of these studies focused on how streams control nutrient transport and storage. Although fewer HBEF studies have addressed how nutrients control stream processes than at some other experimental forests and ranges (EFRs) and long-term ecological research (LTER) sites (Benstead et al. 2009, Davis et al. 2010, Rosemond et al. 2015, Slavik et al. 2004), some studies at HBEF have addressed nutrient or cation enrichment (Hall et al. 2001b, Stelzer et al. 2003). This paper reviews element biogeochemistry studies at HBEF in relation to how nutrients affect biological properties of stream ecosystems.

Parent Publication

• Biological responses to stream nutrients: a synthesis of science from experimental forests and ranges

Citation

Hall, Robert O.; Fiske, Steve. 2021. Chapter 3: Ecoregion 5.3.1 Northern Appalachian and Atlantic Maritime Highlands: Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire. In: Ryan, Douglas F., ed. 2021. Biological responses to stream nutrients: a synthesis of science from experimental forests and ranges. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-981. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 45-65.