Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

By James J. Elser, Matthew E. S. Bracken, E. Cleland, D. Gruner, W. Stanley Harpole, H. Hillebrand, J. Ngai, Eric W. Seabloom, Jonathan B. Shurin, J. Smith. Ecology Letters, 2007

4,345 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0a3a00a5c0a8c605c44a0658c427240e89b62840

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Environmental Chemistry

In Oceanography

Citations in the corpus

Interactive effects of anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment and climate change on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity (2013, background): “Grasslands are often limited by N availability, or co-limited by N and other resources such as water or P (Elser et al. 2007; Hooper and Johnson 1999; LeBauer and Treseder 2008).”
Delivery and cycling of phosphorus in rivers: a review. (2008, background): “However, managing the P (or both P and N) supply can be an effective means of reducing the primary production that drives eutrophication impacts in rivers (e.g. Chételat et al., 1999; Bowes et al., 2007; Elser et al., 2007).”
Foliar nitrogen and phosphorus accumulation responses after fertilization: an example from nutrient-limited Hawaiian forests (2010, methodology): “Nutrient limitation of ecosystems is typically determined by fertilization experiments, with increased biomass or growth rates taken as evidence of limitation (Ulrich and Berry 1961; DiTommaso and Aarssen 1989; Tanner et al. 1998; Elser et al. 2007; LeBauer and Treseder 2008).”
Eutrophication: A new wine in an old bottle? (2019, background): “, 2016), even though schematically, the controlling factor highly debated in the scientific literature (Blomqvist et al., 2004; Conley et al., 2009a; Conley et al., 2009b; Elser et al., 2007; Howarth and Marino, 2006; Schindler, 2012) globally shifts from phosphorus in freshwater to nitrogen in mari”
The effects of nutrient addition on floral characters and pollination in two subalpine plants, Ipomopsis aggregata and Linum lewisii (2009, background): “Nutrient limitation of growth and reproduction by both nitrogen and phosphorus is important in terrestrial systems (Elser et al. 2007), and knowledge of their independent and synergistic effects with pollination will increase our understanding of the patterns and mechanisms of limitation across…”
Emerging patterns in the comparative analysis of phylogenetic community structure (2009, background): “2008), because plants tend to compete for relatively few limiting resources (Tilman 1982); however, this proposition is open to debate (Elser et al. 2007).”
Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “…in the local and global patterns of net primary production (Vitousek et al. 1986, Krausmann et al. 2013) and in the local and global biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and other elements (Vitousek et al. 1997b, Falkowski et al. 2000, Galloway et al. 2004, Elser et al. 2007).”
Global assessment of limitation to symbiotic nitrogen fixation by phosphorus availability in terrestrial ecosystems using a meta‐analysis approach (2013, background): “As a consequence, N limits the productivity of terrestrial ecosystems in large areas in the world [Elser et al., 2007; Vitousek and Howarth, 1991].”
Linking traits to species diversity and community structure in phytoplankton (2010, background): “If we assume that nitrate is more frequently limiting in fresh water (Elser et al., 2007), then differences in allometric scaling of nutrient utilization parameters with cell size may explain different size distributions in marine and freshwater diatoms (Litchman et al., 2009) and potentially in…”
Nutritional Limitation Travels up the Food Chain (2008, background): “…lakes is more © 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim www.revhydro.com often P-limited and in marine systems more often N- limited (but see ELSER et al., 2007), and C : P ratios of seston in lakes are generally higher than in marine environments (ELSER and HASSETT, 1994), the likelihood…”