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Diversity of nitrogen fixation strategies in Mediterranean legumes

The balance of beneficial and detrimental effects of nitrogen-fixing plants hinges on the degree to which plants regulate fixation to meet their needs. Legumes show a large diversity of fixation regimes due to differing evolutionary strategies.

Duncan N. L. Menge
Amelia A. Wolf
Jennifer L. Funk
Research01 Jun 2015
Nature Plants

Volume: 1, P: 1-5
Global terrestrial nitrogen fixation and its modification by agriculture

Biological nitrogen fixation may impose stronger constraints on the carbon sink in natural terrestrial biomes and represent a larger source of agricultural nitrogen than is generally considered in analyses of the global nitrogen cycle.

Carla R. Reis Ely
Steven S. Perakis
Nina Wurzburger
Research16 Jul 2025
Nature

Volume: 643, P: 705-711
Light regulates tropical symbiotic nitrogen fixation more strongly than soil nitrogen

Symbiotic nitrogen fixation is one of the most important sources of nitrogen in terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, the researchers demonstrate that light availability is an outstanding driver of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in tropical leguminous trees.

Benton N. Taylor
Duncan N. L. Menge
Research20 Aug 2018
Nature Plants

Volume: 4, P: 655-661
Nitrogen-fixing trees could exacerbate climate change under elevated nitrogen deposition

The balance between CO₂ sequestration by forests and soil N₂O emissions is poorly constrained. Here, the authors use a theoretical model to demonstrate that symbiotic N₂-fixing trees can either mitigate climate change or exacerbate it relative to non-fixing trees.

Sian Kou-Giesbrecht
Duncan Menge
ResearchOpen Access02 Apr 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-8
Temperature sensitivity of woody nitrogen fixation across species and growing temperatures

Terrestrial biosphere models use a temperature function for N fixation in trees that may not be accurate. This Letter presents evidence that higher temperatures, caused by global warming, may increase N fixation.

Thomas A. Bytnerowicz
Palani R. Akana
Duncan N. L. Menge
Research03 Feb 2022
Nature Plants

Volume: 8, P: 209-216
Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

Unlike Amazonian forests, African forests have maintained their carbon sink until recently but by 2030 the African carbon sink will have shrunk by 14 per cent and the Amazonian sink will reach almost zero.

Wannes Hubau
Simon L. Lewis
Lise Zemagho
Research04 Mar 2020
Nature

Volume: 579, P: 80-87
Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests

Data from 42 chronosequence sites show a geater abundance of legumes in seasonally dry forests than in wet forests, particularly during early secondary succession, probably owing to legumes’ nitrogen-fixing ability and reduced leaflet size.

Maga Gei
Danaë M. A. Rozendaal
Jennifer S. Powers
Research28 May 2018
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 2, P: 1104-1111
Logarithmic scales in ecological data presentation may cause misinterpretation

Logarithmic scales are frequently used in ecological data display, but the degree to which they are understood is not clear. Here, the authors survey members of the Ecological Society of America and find that only 56% of respondents correctly interpreted data presented on log–log axes.

Duncan N. L. Menge
Anna C. MacPherson
Amelia A. Wolf
Research16 Jul 2018
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 2, P: 1393-1402
Symbiotic N fixation is sufficient to support net aboveground biomass accumulation in a humid tropical forest

E. N. J. Brookshire
Nina Wurzburger
Carlton Roberts
ResearchOpen Access20 May 2019
Scientific Reports

Volume: 9, P: 1-10
Defining a research agenda for environmental wastewater surveillance of pathogens

Alexander G. Shaw
Catherine Troman
Julia Fitzner
Correspondence03 Aug 2023
Nature Medicine

Volume: 29, P: 2155-2157
A global dataset of terrestrial biological nitrogen fixation

Carla R. Reis Ely
Steven S. Perakis
Nina Wurzburger
ResearchOpen Access05 Aug 2025
Scientific Data

Volume: 12, P: 1-10