Ecology of nitrogen fixing, nitrifying, and denitrifying microorganisms in tropical forest soils

S Pajares, BJM Bohannan - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Soil microorganisms play important roles in nitrogen cycling within forest ecosystems.
Current research has revealed that a wider variety of microorganisms, with unexpected …

Phosphorus limitation, soil‐borne pathogens and the coexistence of plant species in hyperdiverse forests and shrublands

E Laliberté, H Lambers, TI Burgess… - New Phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hyperdiverse forests occur in the lowland tropics, whereas the most species‐rich shrublands
are found in regions such as south‐western Australia (kwongan) and South Africa (fynbos) …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022 - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity

HFV Cunha, KM Andersen, LF Lugli, FD Santana… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The productivity of rainforests growing on highly weathered tropical soils is expected to be
limited by phosphorus availability. Yet, controlled fertilization experiments have been unable …

Pervasive phosphorus limitation of tree species but not communities in tropical forests

BL Turner, T Brenes-Arguedas, R Condit - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Phosphorus availability is widely assumed to limit primary productivity in tropical forests,, but
support for this paradigm is equivocal. Although biogeochemical theory predicts that …

Long-term impacts of wildfire and logging on forest soils

EJ Bowd, SC Banks, CL Strong, DB Lindenmayer - Nature Geoscience, 2019 - nature.com
Soils are a fundamental component of terrestrial ecosystems, and play key roles in
biogeochemical cycles and the ecology of microbial, plant and animal communities. Global …

Soil properties explain tree growth and mortality, but not biomass, across phosphorus-depleted tropical forests

JL Soong, IA Janssens, O Grau, O Margalef, C Stahl… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
We observed strong positive relationships between soil properties and forest dynamics of
growth and mortality across twelve primary lowland tropical forests in a phosphorus-poor …

Plant responses to fertilization experiments in lowland, species‐rich, tropical forests

SJ Wright, BL Turner, JB Yavitt, KE Harms, M Kaspari… - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present a meta‐analysis of plant responses to fertilization experiments conducted in
lowland, species‐rich, tropical forests. We also update a key result and present the first …

Incorporating phosphorus cycling into global modeling efforts: a worthwhile, tractable endeavor

SC Reed, X Yang, PE Thornton - New Phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Myriad field, laboratory, and modeling studies show that nutrient availability plays a
fundamental role in regulating CO 2 exchange between the Earth's biosphere and …