Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply

DNL Menge, AA Wolf, JL Funk, SS Perakis… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) is a key ecological process whose impact depends on the
strategy of SNF regulation—the degree to which rates of SNF change in response to …

Nitrogen‐fixing trees increase soil nitrous oxide emissions: a meta‐analysis

S Kou‐Giesbrecht, DNL Menge - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen‐fixing trees are an important nitrogen source to terrestrial ecosystems. While they
can fuel primary production and drive carbon dioxide sequestration, they can also potentially …

Forest mycorrhizal dominance depends on historical land use and nitrogen‐fixing trees

N Wurzburger, KJ Elliott… - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Most forests are recovering from human land use, making it critical to understand the effect
of disturbance on forest recovery. Forests of the eastern United States have a long history of …

Seasonal patterns of leaf physiological traits, nutrient and adaptive strategies of co-occurring Alnus nepalensis and Quercus leucotrichophora tree species in the …

RK Joshi, SC Garkoti - Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We compared seasonal leaf gas exchange patterns, photosynthetic pigments, and
photosynthetic nutrient use efficiencies in two co-occurring tree species, Nepalese alder …

Tree-ring δ15N as an indicator of nitrogen dynamics in stands with N2-fixing Alnus rubra

L Nehring, JM Kranabetter, GJ Harper… - Tree …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Tree-ring δ15N may depict site-specific, long-term patterns in nitrogen (N) dynamics under
N2-fixing species, but field trials with N2-fixing tree species are lacking and the relationship …

Nitrogen fixation responds to soil nitrogen at low but not high light in two invasive understory species

CB Schmidt, JL Funk, AA Wolf, PR Akana… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Light and soil nitrogen availability can be strong controls of plant nitrogen (N) fixation, but
data on how understory N‐fixing plants respond to these drivers are limited despite their …

A framework for scaling symbiotic nitrogen fixation using the most widespread nitrogen fixer in eastern deciduous forests of the United States

N Wurzburger, JI Motes, CF Miniat - Journal of Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon uptake by the terrestrial biosphere depends on supplies of new nitrogen (N) from
symbiotic N fixation, but we lack a framework for scaling fixation accurately and for predicting …

Light, nitrogen supply, and neighboring plants dictate costs and benefits of nitrogen fixation for seedlings of a tropical nitrogen‐fixing tree

BN Taylor, DNL Menge - New Phytologist, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to fix nitrogen may confer a competitive advantage or disadvantage to symbiotic
nitrogen‐fixing plants depending on the availability of soil nitrogen and energy to fuel …

Soil organic carbon sequestration

K Lorenz, R Lal - Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial …, 2022 - Springer
Terrestrial biomes in the US can be managed for SOC sequestration. Sequestration for
climate change adaptation and mitigation occurs when the soil C inputs are derived from …

Nitrogen‑fixing plants increase soil nitrogen and neighbouring‑plant biomass, but decrease community diversity: A meta‑analysis reveals the mediating role of soil …

SK Ortiz, AA Wolf - Journal of Ecology, 2024 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Several recent regional studies have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that nitrogen‑
fixing plants (N‑fixers) act as facilitators of neighbouring plant communities. We conducted a …