Heterotrophic nitrogen fixation in decomposing litter: Patterns and regulation

By P. Vitousek, S. Hobbie. 2000

164 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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In Insect Science

1. C. Cleveland
2. S. Reed
3. A. Townsend
4. S. Güsewell
5. S. Hobbie
6. P. Vitousek

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. C. Cleveland
2. S. Reed
3. A. Townsend
4. S. Güsewell
5. S. Hobbie
6. P. Vitousek
7. L. Hedin
8. Alexander R. Barron

In Soil Science

1. C. Cleveland
2. A. Townsend
3. S. Reed
4. S. Güsewell
5. S. Hobbie
6. L. Hedin
7. Alexander R. Barron
8. Whendee Silver

Citations in the corpus

• Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation (2002, background): “A recent study evaluated the control of decomposition rate, and of associated heterotrophic N fixation, by C quality, N supply, and the supply of other nutrients in Hawaiian montane forests (Hobbie & Vitousek 2000; Vitousek & Hobbie, 2000).”
• Interactions between Litter Lignin and Nitrogenitter Lignin and Soil Nitrogen Availability during Leaf Litter Decomposition in a Hawaiian Montane Forest (2000, result): “My results also suggest a reason why free-living N fixers do not alleviate N limitation of ANPP in this low-N ecosystem (Vitousek and Hobbie 2000).”
• N : P ratios in terrestrial plants: variation and functional significance. (2004, background): “…a variety of mechanisms, such as the control of microbial N fixation by P availability, the effect of P availability on decomposition and N mineralization, or the effect of N availability on P mineralization (Cole & Heil, 1981; Eisele et al., 1989; Vitousek & Hobbie, 2000; Gressel & McColl, 2003).”
• Phosphorus Fertilization Increases the Abundance and Nitrogenase Activity of the Cyanolichen Pseudocyphellaria crocata in Hawaiian Montane Forests (2007, background): “Estimates of fixation by free-living bacteria are few in montane forests (Crews et al. 2000, Vitousek & Hobbie 2000), but their contribution to most forest ecosystems is thought to be relatively minor (Son 2001).”
• Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Two Tropical Forests: Ecosystem-Level Patterns and Effects of Nitrogen Fertilization (2009, background): “However, measurements in tropical ecosystems relatively similar to these Puerto Rican forests have calculated ratios near 1:3 for similar life forms (Crews and others 2001; Vitousek 1994; Vitousek and Hobbie 2000).”
• Biological nitrogen fixation by alternative nitrogenases in terrestrial ecosystems: a review (2020, background): “Other studies on the effects of trace metal and phosphorus (P) additions in Hawaiian soils indicated that Mo additions could promote higher BNF rates (Crews et al. 2000; Vitousek 1999; Vitousek and Hobbie 2000).”
• Relationships among phosphorus, molybdenum and free-living nitrogen fixation in tropical rain forests: results from observational and experimental analyses (2013, methodology): “Vitousek and Hobbie (2000) did investigate micro-nutrient (a mixture of micro-nutrients including Mo) versus P controls over free-living N fixation in a set of tropical rain forest sites in Hawai’i.”
• Controls Over Leaf Litter and Soil Nitrogen Fixation in Two Lowland Tropical Rain Forests (2007, methodology): “:P values are known to drive higher rates of N fixation in other ecosystems (Eisele et al. 1989), and litter-layer fixation has been shown to vary in concert with the extent to which decomposition is limited by N (Vitousek & Hobbie 2000).”
• Molybdenum limitation of asymbiotic nitrogen fixation in tropical forest soils (2009, background): “Variations in foliar chemistry, including lignin, have been suggested to influence nitrogen fixatio”