NITROGEN FIXATION INCREASES WITH SUCCESSIONAL AGE IN BOREAL FORESTS

By O. Zackrisson, T. DeLuca, M. Nilsson, A. Sellstedt, L. Berglund. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Effects of leaf litter on the growth of boreal feather mosses: Implication for forest floor development (2008, background): “However, Zackrisson et al. (2004) found increased nitrogen fixation in older forests.”
Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long‐term natural experiment (2012, background): “Greater N fixation on the small islands may be due to greater soil moisture resulting from deeper humus, less mineral N present (given that high N availability reduces N fixation; Zackrisson et al. 2004) or shifts in interactions between mosses and other vegetation components.”
The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. (2008, background): “…the feather moss Pleurozium schreberi fixes significant quantities of N (1.5–2.0 kg N ha)1 year)1) and acts as a major contributor to N accumulation and cycling in boreal forests, especially in late successional systems where rates of N fixation via this route are greatest (Zackrisson et al. 2004).”
Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change (2009, background): “…lichens (Weiss et al. 2005; see references in Cornelissen et al. (2007b)) or epiphytically on bryophytes (Basilier et al. 1978; Solheim et al. 1996; Zackrisson et al. 2004), may represent an important component of the Ncycle in the Arctic, especially in highly N-limited systems where nodulated…”
Bryophytes attenuate anthropogenic nitrogen inputs in boreal forests (2011, background): “…N-fixation is an energy expensive process, and several studies in boreal systems have demonstrated an inverse relation- ship between rates of biological N-fixation and N availability or soil fertility (Zackrisson et al., 2004; Lagerström et al., 2007; DeLuca et al., 2008; Gundale et al., 2010).”
Understory Vegetation Dynamics of North American Boreal Forests (2006, background): “Although total nitrogen may not change considerably with time after the fire, the form of N changes from NO3 to NH4 (Deluca et al., 2002; Zackrisson et al., 2004; Nilsson and Wardle, 2005) as a result of N fixation, which has been found to increase linearly with time after fire, primarily from the…”