N. L. Menge, Duncan O. Hedin, Lars W. Pacala, Stephen Transition time to P limitation on the weathering timescale. <p>The main determinant of the transition time, if it occurs on the weathering timescale, is the weathering rate. Equation 19 is plotted as a function of the weathering rate, with the rest of the parameters as in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042045#pone-0042045-t001" target="_blank">Table 1</a> (solid diagonal line), high dust deposition and parent material P (<i>α</i> = 0.05 kg P ha<sup>−1</sup> y<sup>−1</sup>, <i>γ</i> = 1 kg P ha<sup>−1</sup>; dashed diagonal line) and low dust deposition and parent material (<i>α</i> = 0.001 kg P ha<sup>−1</sup> y<sup>−1</sup>, <i>γ</i> = 0.2 kg P ha<sup>−1</sup>; dotted diagonal line). The weathering rate and transition time in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042045#pone-0042045-t001" target="_blank">Table 1</a> and <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042045#pone-0042045-g002" target="_blank">Fig. 2</a> are plotted as an open circle. All parameter sets plotted here yield a transition to P limitation, although many possible parameters sets do not (see <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042045#pone-0042045-g004" target="_blank">Figs. 4</a>, <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042045#pone-0042045-g005" target="_blank">5</a>). Weathering rates from the Hawai’i (solid vertical line) and Franz Josef (dotted vertical line) chronosequences from <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042045#pone.0042045-Buenda1" target="_blank">[51]</a> are also plotted. Note that both axes are logarithmic.</p> weathering 2012-08-03
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