Abstract

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.

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Title
Tropical carbon sink accelerated by symbiotic dinitrogen fixation
Author
Levy-Varon, Jennifer H 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Batterman, Sarah A 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Medvigy, David 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Xu, Xiangtao 4 ; Hall, Jefferson S 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Michiel van Breugel 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Hedin, Lars O 1 

 Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA 
 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA; School of Geography and Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá, Panama; Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA 
 Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA 
 Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 
 ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá, Panama 
 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá, Panama; Yale-NUS College, Singapore and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 
Pages
1-8
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Dec 2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20411723
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2323458228
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.