Changes in soil carbon and nitrogen after contrasting land-use transitions in northeastern Costa Rica

Agriculture & Biology

• soil carbon 100%
• Costa Rica 88%
• land use 80%
• nitrogen 48%
• soil 41%
• plantations 27%
• pastures 25%
• bananas 25%
• cash crops 23%
• primary forests 16%
• land use change 15%
• Vochysia guatemalensis 11%
• Vochysia 10%
• gas emissions 8%
• reforestation 7%
• secondary forests 7%
• deforestation 7%
• organic carbon 6%
• forest trees 6%
• topography 6%
• plant litter 6%
• soil properties 6%
• nitrogen fertilizers 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• soil nitrogen 95%
• soil carbon 84%
• land use 55%
• transition 51%
• soil 35%
• pasture 33%
• plantation 31%
• cash crop 29%
• primary forest 17%
• land use change 12%
• leaf litter 8%
• secondary forest 8%
• reforestation 7%
• ecosystem process 7%
• loss 7%
• cropping practice 6%
• mosaic 6%
• deforestation 6%
• soil property 6%
• soil surface 6%
• fertilizer 5%
• organic carbon 5%

Chemical Compounds

• Soil 70%
• Nitrogen 49%
• Carbon Atom 38%
• Fertilizer 7%
• Ecosystem 7%
• Organic Carbon 6%