Patterns of nitrogen-fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America

• Published in: The Journal of ecology Vol. 107; no. 6; pp. 2598 - 2610
• Main Authors: Menge, Duncan N. L., Chisholm, Ryan A., Davies, Stuart J., Salim, Kamariah Abu, Allen, David, Alvarez, Mauricio, Bourg, Norm, Brockelman, Warren Y., Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh, Butt, Nathalie, Cao, Min, Chanthorn, Wirong, Chao, Wei-Chun, Clay, Keith, Condit, Richard, Cordell, Susan, da Silva, João Batista, Dattaraja, H. S., de Andrade, Ana Cristina Segalin, de Oliveira, Alexandre A., den Ouden, Jan, Drescher, Michael, Fletcher, Christine, Giardina, Christian P., Gunatilleke, C. V. Savitri, Gunatilleke, I. A. U. Nimal, Hau, Billy C. H., He, Fangliang, Howe, Robert, Hsieh, Chang-Fu, Hubbell, Stephen P., Inman-Narahari, Faith M., Jansen, Patrick A., Johnson, Daniel J., Kong, Lee Sing, Král, Kamil, Ku, Chen-Chia, Lai, Jiangshan, Larson, Andrew J., Li, Xiankun, Li, Yide, Lin, Luxiang, Lin, YiChing, Liu, Shirong, Lum, Shawn K. Y., Lutz, James A., Ma, Keping, Malhi, Yadvinder, McMahon, Sean, McShea, William, Mi, Xiangcheng, Morecroft, Michael, Myers, Jonathan A., Nathalang, Anuttara, Novotny, Vojtech, Ong, Perry, Orwig, David A., Ostertag, Rebecca, Parker, Geoffrey, Phillips, Richard P., Rahman, Kassim Abd, Sack, Lawren, Sang, Weiguo, Shen, Guochun, Shringi, Ankur, Shue, Jessica, Su, Sheng-Hsin, Sukumar, Raman, Sun, I-Fang, Suresh, H. S., Tan, Sylvester, Thomas, Sean C., Toko, Pagi S., Valencia, Renato, Vallejo, Martha I., Vicentini, Alberto, Vrška, Tomáš, Wang, Bin, Wang, Xihua, Weiblen, George D., Wolf, Amy, Xu, Han, Yap, Sandra, Zhu, Li, Fung, Tak
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford John Wiley & Sons Ltd 01.11.2019; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Abundance; Annual precipitation; Asia; data collection; Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; ecosystems; Europe; forest; Forests; latitude; legume; meta-analysis; Nitrogen; Nitrogen fixation; nitrogen-fixing trees; Nitrogenation; North America; nutrient limitation; Plant species; Precipitation; Smithsonian ForestGEO; South America; stems; Symbionts; symbiosis; Temperature; Trees; Tropical climate; Tropical environments; Tropical forests; tropics; Asia; South America; North America; Europe

1. Symbiotic nitrogen (N)-fixing trees can provide large quantities of new N to ecosystems, but only if they are sufficiently abundant. The overall abundance and latitudinal abundance distributions of N-fixing trees are well characterised in the Americas, but less well outside the Americas. 2. Here,...