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  <dc:contributor>G.E. Likens</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>D.W. Fisher</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>R.S. Pierce</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>F.H. Bormann</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1968</dc:date>
  <dc:description>The forest of a small watershed-ecosystem was cut in order to determine the effects of removal of vegetation on nutrient cycles. Relative to undisturbed ecosystems, the cut ecosystem exhibited accelerated loss of nutrients: nitrogen lost during the first year after cutting was equivalent to the amount annually turned over in an undisturbed system, and losses of cations were 3 to 20 times greater than from comparable undisturbed systems. Possible causes of the pattern of nutrient loss from the cut ecosystem are discussed.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1126/science.159.3817.882</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>American Association for the Advancement of Science</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Nutrient loss accelerated by clear-cutting of a forest ecosystem</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>