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  • Tropical forests regulate Earth’s carbon cycle, but what governs carbon sequestration following land use remains unclear. Here Tang et al find a shift from strong nitrogen limitation to no nutrient limitation over tropical forest secondary succession.

    • Wenguang Tang
    • Jefferson S. Hall
    • Sarah A. Batterman
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 17, P: 1-10

  • Dinitrogen fixation by plants is a major source of new nitrogen to land ecosystems. Climatic constraints on the nitrogen cycle can explain biome-scale differences in the abundance of nitrogen fixing trees, according to an analysis of the ecological and evolutionary conditions under which different fixation strategies emerge.

    • Efrat Sheffer
    • Sarah A. Batterman
    • Lars O. Hedin
    Research
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 1, P: 1-6

  • 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
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 643, P: 705-711

  • Nitrogen-fixing trees are favoured by herbivorous animals relative to non-fixing trees, increasing their carbon opportunity cost and potentially constraining global nitrogen fixation.

    • Will Barker
    • Liza S. Comita
    • Sarah A. Batterman
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 612, P: 483-487

  • Climatic variables have played a significant role in plant evolution across the Phanerozoic. Here, the authors link climate with a new dynamic vegetation model to identify two windows of opportunity for plant biomass expansion, corresponding with the expansion of land plants and the angiosperm radiation.

    • Khushboo Gurung
    • Katie J. Field
    • Benjamin J. W. Mills
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-9

  • The geographic spread of plants exerted an important control over ancient climate change by modifying continental weathering and carbon burial rates. This effect is investigated using a new coupled vegetation-climate-biogeochemical model.

    • Khushboo Gurung
    • Katie J. Field
    • Benjamin J. W. Mills
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-7

  • The contribution of symbiotic dinitrogen fixation to the forest carbon sink could change throughout forest succession. Here the authors model nitrogen cycling and light competition between trees based on data from Panamanian forest plots, showing that fixation contributes substantially to the carbon sink in early successional stages.

    • Jennifer H. Levy-Varon
    • Sarah A. Batterman
    • Lars O. Hedin
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-8

  • An extensive dataset indicates that nitrogen-fixing trees are most abundant in young, dry tropical forests. The finding expands the potential for natural nitrogen fertilization and carbon dioxide sequestration in areas recovering from land use.

    • Sarah A. Batterman
    News & Views
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 2, P: 1059-1060

  • In tropical moist forests, nitrogen-fixing tree species can supply a large proportion of the nitrogen required for net forest growth in the first 12 years of recovery after human or natural perturbation, with nitrogen-fixing trees accumulating carbon up to nine times faster per individual than non-fixing trees, and species-specific differences in the amount and timing of fixation.

    • Sarah A. Batterman
    • Lars O. Hedin
    • Jefferson S. Hall
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 502, P: 224-227