Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation

By P. Vitousek, K. Cassman, C. Cleveland, T. Crews, Christopher B. Field, N. Grimm, R. Howarth, Roxanne Marino, L. Martinelli, E. Rastetter and 1 more. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

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Dominance of legume trees alters nutrient relations in mixed species forest restoration plantings within seven years (2008, background): “Although N2-fixing leguminous trees are widespread in most tropical secondary forests, their N2-fixation rates can be sensitive to low soil P availability, which in turn may thus limit ecosystem productivity and N accumulation (Vitousek et al. 2002; Güsewell 2004).”
Role of Microorganisms in the Remediation of Wastewater in Floating Treatment Wetlands: A Review (2020, background): “The heterotrophic nitrogen fixer usually makes mutual symbiosis with the roots and exchanges the sugars from the roots for ammonia that bacteria produce [152,160].”
Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate. (2009, result): “This result suggests that although [P] and [N] are indeed higher for the N2-fixing capable members of the Fabaceae, in accordance with the notion that N 2 fixers have a high [P] and a high [N] requiring “lifestyle” (Vitousek et al., 2002), members of the Fabaceae who cannot fix nitrogen also have el”
Relationship of understory diversity to soil nitrogen, topographic variation, and stand age in an eastern oak forest, USA (2005, background): “bracteata), important N-fixers in terrestrial ecosystems, may have further enhanced soil N levels on these sites (Vitousek et al., 2002).”
The global nitrogen cycle in the twenty-first century (2013, background): “(a) Biological fixation (i) Terrestrial ecosystems BNF provides an important reference when quantifying the importance of human inputs to the global nitrogen cycle, as this is the primary non-anthropogenic input of Nr [15].”
Controls Over Leaf Litter and Soil Nitrogen Fixation in Two Lowland Tropical Rain Forests (2007, background): “Biological N fixation is energetically expensive (Gutschick 1987), and the high cost of acquiring N via fixation should strongly disfavor the process in N-rich ecosystems, where cellular uptake should be a more efficient means of acquiring biologically available N (Vitousek et al. 2002).”
Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages (2014, background): “For example, associated with their root symbiosis, members of the Fabaceae are believed to have increased leaf nitrogen (N) relative to other lineages with implications for the global N cycle (McKey 1994; Vitousek et al. 2002; Houlton et al. 2008).”
Foliar nutrient concentrations and resorption efficiency in plants of contrasting nutrient‐acquisition strategies along a 2‐million‐year dune chronosequence (2014, background): “This was expected based on previous results showing that these soils had low [N] (Lalibert e et al. 2012), possibly because low [P] in these older soils constrains N2 fixation (Vitousek et al. 2002) and/or does not favour N retention when P, rather than N, limits productivity.”
Human alteration of the global nitrogen and phosphorus soil balances for the period 1970–2050 (2009, background): “Finally, grazing of protein-rich tissues of leguminous plants may control biological N2 fixation [Vitousek et al., 2002b].”
Metallophores and Trace Metal Biogeochemistry (2015, background): “Nitrogen is often the limiting nutrient in terrestrial and marine environments (Vitousek and Howarth 1991), and because of this limitation, there is considerable interest in factors, from the molecular to ecosystem scale, that limit N fixation (Vitousek et al. 2002).”