Nitrogen deposition and climate: an integrated synthesis

Nitrogen increases early‐stage and slows late‐stage decomposition across diverse grasslands

(2022) Allison L. Gill et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity

(2021) Kevin Van Sundert et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil microbial diversity–biomass relationships are driven by soil carbon content across global biomes

(2021) Felipe Bastida et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial substrate stoichiometry governs nutrient effects on nitrogen cycling in grassland soils

(2021) P.M. Schleuss et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Is Global Microbial Biodiversity Increasing, Decreasing, or Staying the Same?

(2021) David S. Thaler   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The Invisible Hand of the Periodic Table: How Micronutrients Shape Ecology

(2021) Michael Kaspari   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide

(2021) Pedro M. Tognetti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils

(2021) Ylva Lekberg et al.   Nature Communications

Soil properties as key predictors of global grassland production: Have we overlooked micronutrients?

(2021) Dajana Radujković et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nutrient identity modifies the destabilising effects of eutrophication in grasslands

(2021) Oliver Carroll et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil carbon stocks in temperate grasslands differ strongly across sites but are insensitive to decade‐long fertilization

(2021) Adrienne B. Keller et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands

(2021) Anne Ebeling et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Nutrient addition increases grassland sensitivity to droughts

(2020) Siddharth Bharath et al.   ECOLOGY

Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands

(2020) Judith Sitters et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sick plants in grassland communities: a growth‐defense trade‐off is the main driver of fungal pathogen abundance

(2020) Seraina L. Cappelli et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dominant native and non‐native graminoids differ in key leaf traits irrespective of nutrient availability

(2020) Arthur A. D. Broadbent et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Strong mineralogic control of soil organic matter composition in response to nutrient addition across diverse grassland sites

(2020) Qian Zhao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microbial processing of plant remains is co‐limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands

(2020) Raúl Ochoa‐Hueso et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties

(2020) Anita C. Risch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Diversity and community structure of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi in European bogs and heathlands across a gradient of nitrogen deposition

(2020) Maarten Van Geel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Microbial carbon use efficiency in grassland soils subjected to nitrogen and phosphorus additions

(2020) Meike Widdig et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effect of nitrogen (N) deposition on soil-N processes: a holistic approach

(2020) Preeti Verma et al.   Scientific Reports

Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time

(2020) Eric W. Seabloom et al.   ECOLOGY

Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory

(2020) E. T. Borer et al.   Nature Communications

Nitrogen emissions in Latin America: A conceptual framework of drivers, impacts, and policy responses

(2020) Gisleine Cunha-Zeri et al.   Environmental Development

Belowground Biomass Response to Nutrient Enrichment Depends on Light Limitation Across Globally Distributed Grasslands

(2019) Elsa E. Cleland et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Sensitivity of global soil carbon stocks to combined nutrient enrichment

(2019) T. W. Crowther et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs

(2019) Jennifer Firn et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

More salt, please: global patterns, responses and impacts of foliar sodium in grasslands

(2019) E. T. Borer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Understanding how changing soil nitrogen affects plant–pollinator interactions

(2019) Thomas I. David et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

(2019) Jian Song et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

(2019) A. C. Risch et al.   Nature Communications

Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient

(2018) T. Michael Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition in terrestrial ecosystems: Its impact on plant communities and consequences across trophic levels

(2018) Carly J. Stevens et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Global negative effects of nitrogen deposition on soil microbes

(2018) Tian’an Zhang et al.   ISME Journal

Global Estimates of Inorganic Nitrogen Deposition Across Four Decades

(2018) Daniel Ackerman et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Impacts of nitrogen addition on plant species richness and abundance: A global meta‐analysis

(2018) Gabriele Midolo et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains

(2017) Lori Biederman et al.   PLoS One

Nitrogen-induced terrestrial eutrophication: cascading effects and impacts on ecosystem services

(2017) Christopher M. Clark et al.   Ecosphere

The role of above-ground competition and nitrogen vs. phosphorus enrichment in seedling survival of common European plant species of semi-natural grasslands

(2017) Tobias Ceulemans et al.   PLoS One

Vegetation community change points suggest that critical loads of nutrient nitrogen may be too high

(2016) Kayla Wilkins et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

How long do ecosystems take to recover from atmospheric nitrogen deposition?

(2016) Carly J. Stevens   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Drivers of Variation in Aboveground Net Primary Productivity and Plant Community Composition Differ Across a Broad Precipitation Gradient

(2016) Kimberly J. La Pierre et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Nitrogen enrichment weakens ecosystem stability through decreased species asynchrony and population stability in a temperate grassland

(2016) Yunhai Zhang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

(2016) W. Stanley Harpole et al.   NATURE

Historical nectar assessment reveals the fall and rise of floral resources in Britain

(2016) Mathilde Baude et al.   NATURE

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

(2016) James B. Grace et al.   NATURE

Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment

(2016) Habacuc Flores-Moreno et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Timescales and the management of ecological systems

(2016) Alan Hastings   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Increasing importance of deposition of reduced nitrogen in the United States

(2016) Yi Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States

(2016) Samuel M. Simkin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change

(2016) T. L. Greaver et al.   Nature Climate Change

Nitrogen addition changes grassland soil organic matter decomposition

(2015) Charlotte E. Riggs et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

(2015) Carly J. Stevens et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil nutrient additions increase invertebrate herbivore abundances, but not herbivory, across three grassland systems

(2015) Kimberly J. La Pierre et al.   OECOLOGIA

Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

(2015) Jonathan W. Leff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The effects of simulated nitrogen deposition on plant root traits: A meta-analysis

(2015) Weibin Li et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Long-term nitrogen deposition depletes grassland seed banks

(2015) Sofía Basto et al.   Nature Communications

Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

(2015) Eric W. Seabloom et al.   Nature Communications

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

(2014) Yann Hautier et al.   NATURE

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

(2014) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   NATURE

Nitrogen deposition, plant carbon allocation, and soil microbes: Changing interactions due to enrichment

(2013) Emily C. Farrer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

A global assessment of precipitation chemistry and deposition of sulfur, nitrogen, sea salt, base cations, organic acids, acidity and pH, and phosphorus

(2013) Robert Vet et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Life-history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

(2013) Eric M. Lind et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Regional Contingencies in the Relationship between Aboveground Biomass and Litter in the World’s Grasslands

(2013) Lydia R. O’Halloran et al.   PLoS One

Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity

(2013) F. Isbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

(2013) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Do Nutrient Limitation Patterns Shift from Nitrogen Toward Phosphorus with Increasing Nitrogen Deposition Across the Northeastern United States?

(2012) K. F. Crowley et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Effects of nitrogen deposition and empirical nitrogen critical loads for ecoregions of the United States

(2011) Linda H. Pardo et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Will PM control undermine China’s efforts to reduce soil acidification?

(2011) Yu Zhao et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Fungal and bacterial growth responses to N fertilization and pH in the 150-year ‘Park Grass’ UK grassland experiment

(2011) Johannes Rousk et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis

(2010) R. Bobbink et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Nitrogen deposition and its ecological impact in China: An overview

(2010) Xuejun Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

(2010) I. A. Janssens et al.   Nature Geoscience

Nitrogen availability in a grazed semi-arid grassland is dominated by seasonal rainfall

(2010) Marcus Giese et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Environmental myopia: a diagnosis and a remedy

(2010) Jonathan Silvertown et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Contribution of acidification and eutrophication to declines in species richness of calcifuge grasslands along a gradient of atmospheric nitrogen deposition

(2009) Carly J. Stevens et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Combined effects of precipitation and nitrogen deposition on native and invasive winter annual production in California deserts

(2009) Leela E. Rao et al.   OECOLOGIA

On the fate of anthropogenic nitrogen

(2009) W. H. Schlesinger   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Competition for Light Causes Plant Biodiversity Loss After Eutrophication

(2009) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

NITROGEN LIMITATION OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IS GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED

(2008) David S. LeBauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

(2008) J. N. Galloway et al.   SCIENCE