Can evolutionary constraints explain the rarity of nitrogen-fixing trees in high-latitude forests?

Nitrogen limitation disappears with succession in many lowland tropical rainforests - as expected. Why the persistence in temperate latitudes?

(2016) Timothy E. Crews   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Taxonomic identity determines N2fixation by canopy trees across lowland tropical forests

(2015) Nina Wurzburger et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Higher survival drives the success of nitrogen-fixing trees through succession in Costa Rican rainforests

(2015) Duncan N. L. Menge et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Diversity of nitrogen fixation strategies in Mediterranean legumes

(2015) Duncan N. L. Menge et al.   Nature Plants

Biome-scale nitrogen fixation strategies selected by climatic constraints on nitrogen cycle

(2015) Efrat Sheffer et al.   Nature Plants

Nitrogen fixation strategies can explain the latitudinal shift in nitrogen-fixing tree abundance

(2014) Duncan N. L. Menge et al.   ECOLOGY

Spatially robust estimates of biological nitrogen (N) fixation imply substantial human alteration of the tropical N cycle

(2014) B. W. Sullivan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A single evolutionary innovation drives the deep evolution of symbiotic N2-fixation in angiosperms

(2014) Gijsbert D. A. Werner et al.   Nature Communications

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

(2013) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NATURE

Key role of symbiotic dinitrogen fixation in tropical forest secondary succession

(2013) Sarah A. Batterman et al.   NATURE

Factors affecting the potential contributions of N2 fixation by legumes in Australian pasture systems

(2012) M. B. Peoples et al.   Crop & Pasture Science

Size, structure and nitrogen content of seeds of Fabaceae in relation to nodulation

(2011) HAROLD D. L. CORBY et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Life Histories of Symbiotic Rhizobia and Mycorrhizal Fungi

(2011) R. Ford Denison et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass

(2011) Fiona J. Thomson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The Nitrogen Paradox in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

(2010) Lars O. Hedin et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Facultative nitrogen fixation by canopy legumes in a lowland tropical forest

(2010) Alexander R. Barron et al.   OECOLOGIA

Phylogenetic Constraints Do Not Explain the Rarity of Nitrogen-Fixing Trees in Late-Successional Temperate Forests

(2010) Duncan N. L. Menge et al.   PLoS One

Woody legumes: a (re)view from the South

(2010) M. A. Adams et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Nitrogen fixation in different biogeochemical niches along a 120 000-year chronosequence in New Zealand

(2009) Duncan N. L. Menge et al.   ECOLOGY

An experimental and modelling exploration of the host-sanction hypothesis in legume–rhizobia mutualism

(2009) Diana E. Marco et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Increased tree carbon storage in response to nitrogen deposition in the US

(2009) R. Quinn Thomas et al.   Nature Geoscience

Sanctions, Cooperation, and the Stability of Plant-Rhizosphere Mutualisms

(2008) E. Toby Kiers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Biogeography of the Monte Desert

(2008) F.A. Roig et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Seed Dispersal Anachronisms: Rethinking the Fruits Extinct Megafauna Ate

(2008) Paulo R. Guimarães et al.   PLoS One