Litterfall inputs drive patterns of soil nitrogen heterogeneity in a diverse tropical forest

Brooke Bossert Osborne1, Fiona Soper2, Megan Nasto3, Siwook Hwang4, Megan Machmuller4, Benjamin W Sullivan5, Greg Asner6, Cory C. Cleveland7, Alan Townsend8 and Stephen Porder1, (1)Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Utah State University, Utah Forest Institute, Logan, UT, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States, (6)Arizona State University, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Tempe, AZ, United States, (7)University of Montana, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, MT, United States, (8)Colorado College, Environmental Science, Colorado Springs, CO, United States