Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems

By P. Vitousek, D. Menge, S. Reed, C. Cleveland. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2013

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Diverse Mycorrhizal Associations Enhance Terrestrial C Storage in a Global Model (2019, background): “514 estimates for the globe (less than 40 to over 100 Tg N/year; Cleveland et al., 1999; Vitousek et al., 2013) and for most biomes, except that the model‐estimated N2 fixation was higher in the boreal forest and lower in tundra than observation‐based estimates (Table 1).”
Chapter 14 – Nitrogen Transformations (2015, background): “The importance of N to ecosystem productivity is most evident in agriculture, where the amount of N fertilizer added to the biosphere each year to support crop growth (112 Tg N; FAO 2019) now exceeds the amount of N added naturally from other terrestrial sources (61 Tg; Vitousek et al., 2013).”
Evolutionary Legacy Effects on Ecosystems: Biogeographic Origins, Plant Traits, and Implications for Management in the Era of Global Change (2016, background): “Because of the relatively high rates of nitrogen fixation achieved by symbiotic nitrogen-fixing legumes and actinorhizal species, symbiotic biological nitrogen fixation dominates nitrogen inputs to land ecosystems (Vitousek et al. 2013).”
The Global Distribution of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Terrestrial Natural Ecosystems (2020, methodology): “Some global BNF estimates are top‐down estimates using a nitrogen budget (e.g., Vitousek et al., 2013), which takes known global values of carbon to nitrogen ratios and 15N and uses these to calculate the required BNF.”
Nitrogen footprints: past, present and future (2014, background): “Saying it another way, in 2010, human Nr creation was more than three-fold greater than natural terrestrial Nr creation (Fowler et al 2013, Vitousek et al 2013).”
Food and feed trade as a driver in the global nitrogen cycle: 50-year trends (2014, background): “In 2010, human activities created *210 Tg of reactive nitrogen compared to *58 Tg of reactive N by natural processes (i.e., BNF) on continents (Fowler et al. 2013; Vitousek et al. 2013).”
Biological nitrogen fixation by alternative nitrogenases in terrestrial ecosystems: a review (2020, background): “the abundant but inert dinitrogen (N2) molecule into ammonia, is the primary route for entry of new reactive, biologically available N (or ‘fixed’ N) in the absence of human activities (Galloway et al. 2004; Vitousek et al. 2013).”
The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty (2019, background): “Preindustrial estimate (Vitousek et al., 2013), range 40–100 Tg N/year.”