How nutrient cycles constrain carbon balances in boreal forests and arctic tundra
Edited by P Högberg, K Nadelhoffer and S Hobbie
Special Issue of Plant and Soil
In press.

List of submitted manuscripts

Foreword
P Högberg, K Nadelhoffer

The influence of nitrogen on carbon stocks along a boreal forest transect in central Canada
J Bhatti, MJ Apps, H Jiang

The role of nitrogen dynamics in modelling historical and projected carbon balance of black spruce ecosystems across North America: comparisons with CO₂ fluxes measured in the Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study (BOREAS)
J Clein, AD McGuire, DW Kicklighter, JM Melillo, SC Wofsy and PG Jarvis

Modelling carbon dynamics in coniferous forest soils in a temperature gradient
R Hyvönen, MP Berg, GI Ågren

Fire dynamics and implications for nitrogen cycling in boreal forests
J Harden, M Mack, H Veldhuis, ST Gower

Fire and site type effects on the long-term carbon balance in pristine Siberian Scots pine forests
Wirth et al

Controls on decomposition and soil nitrogen availability at high latitudes
C. Robinson

Litter quality in a north European transect versus carbon storage potential
B Berg, V Meentemeyer

Mineralization and allocation of nutrients by plants and microbes in four arctic ecosystems - responses to warming
IK Schmidt, S Jonasson, G Shaver, A Michelsen, A Nordin

Fine root production and nutrient use in wet and moist arctic tundras as influenced by chronic fertilization
KJ Nadelhoffer, L Johnson, J Laundre, AE Giblin, GR Shaver

Is microbial growth carbon- or nitrogen-limited in boreal forest soils?
A Ekblad, A Nordgren

Defining nutritional constraints on carbon cycling - towards a less "phytocentric" perspective
B Lindahl, AFS Taylor, RD Finlay

Controls and concerns over carbon gas fluxes in boreal forests
J Alm, S Saarnio, H Nykänen, J Silvola, PJ Martikainen

Exchange of CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O between the atmosphere and two northern boreal ponds with the catchments dominated by peatland or forests
J Huttunen, TS Väisänen, M Heikkinen, S Hellsten, H Nykänen, O Nenonen, PJ Martikainen

Effect of long-term experimental nitrogen load on methane fluxes on ombrotrophic boreal peatland
H Nykänen, H Vasander, J Huttunen, PJ Martikainen

Effects of nitrogen fertilization on the methane oxidation in boreal peat soils
I Kravchenko

The role of nutrients as constraints on carbon balances in boreal and arctic regions
S Hobbie, K Nadelhoffer, P Högberg