Abstract
Copyright: © 2012 Leon Pelaez JD. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Nutrient cycling studies have been performed throughout the world for over fifty years. The earliest of these studies were carried out in natural forests of temperate regions, and focused on small number of processes related to litterfall (e.g. nutrient return, nutrient release). Due to increasing interest in tropical forests and an apparent lack of knowledge about their functioning, nutrient cycling studies were later progressively located in tropical and subtropical forests, and began to incorporate other nutrient cycling pathways as well, such as those related to hydrological fluxes and edaphic processes. Pioneer studies that supplied valuable knowledge of nutrient cycling in tropical forests can be attributed to a long list of scientists, among whom could be mentioned H. Jenny, C.F. Jordan, H. Nye, P.J. Edwards, F. Golley, J. Proctor, B. Lundgren, S.N. Rai, J.J. Ewel, and F. Bernhard.
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