• Biodiversity & Ecology

    • A climate-driven switch in plant nitrogen acquisition within tropical forest communities

      • B. Z. Houlton, D. M. Sigman, E. A. G. Schuur, L. O. Hedin,
      • Original article citation: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104," (2007).
      • Categories: Biodiversity & Ecology and Climate Impacts
      • Recommended by: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:21PM GMT
      • Reasons for recommending:
        This paper by Houlzon and aollegaues published last month in PNAS suggests that the physiological response of individual plant species will determine how the tropical forest community as whole responds to climate-driven changes in nitrogen avilaibility. Basically, they measured isotope natural abundances in a variety of plants with diverse growth strategies to show that they relied on a common source of inorganic nitrogen and that they changed their primary supply of nitrogen rapidly in response and in unison to changes in precipitation.

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