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Ecosystems (2008) 11: 325–341 DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9126-3 Fine Root Dynamics and Forest Production Across a Calcium Gradient in Northern Hardwood and Conifer Ecosystems Byung Bae Park,1,2 Ruth D. Yanai,1,* Timothy J. Fahey,3 Scott W. Bailey,4 Thomas G. Siccama,5 James B. Shanley,6 and Natalie L. Cleavitt3 1Forest and Natural Resources Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 210 Marshall Hall, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, New York 13210, USA; 2Division of Forest Ecology, Korea Forest Research Institute, Seoul 130-172, South Korea; 3Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA; 4USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Campton, New Hampshire 03223, USA; 5 Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA; 6Water Resources Discipline, US Geological Survey, Montpelier, Vermont 05601, USA ABSTRACT Losses of soil base cations due to acid rain have creased significantly with soil exchangeable Ca been implicated in declines of red spruce and sugar (P = 0.03). As a result, calculated fine root pro- maple in the northeastern USA. We studied fine duction was clearly higher in sites with higher soil root and aboveground biomass and production in Ca (P = 0.02). Fine root production (biomass times five northern hardwood and three conifer stands turnover) ranged from 1.2 to 3.7 Mg ha)1 y)1 for differing in soil Ca status at Sleepers River, VT; hardwood stands and from 0.9 to 2.3 Mg ha)1 y)1 Hubbard Brook, NH; and Cone Pond, NH. Neither for conifer stands. The relationship we observed aboveground biomass and production nor below- between soil Ca availability and root production ground biomass were related to s