Aridity, not fire, favors nitrogen-fixing plants across tropical savanna and forest biomes

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Disturbance maintains alternative biome states

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

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Key role of symbiotic dinitrogen fixation in tropical forest secondary succession

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Drought enhances symbiotic dinitrogen fixation and competitive ability of a temperate forest tree

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Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems

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Stability structures tropical woody plant diversity more than seasonality: Insights into the ecology of high legume-succulent-plant biodiversity

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Sapwood to heartwood ratio affects whole-tree water use in dry forest legume and non-legume trees

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The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States

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The Nitrogen Paradox in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

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Growth of N2-fixing African savanna Acacia species is constrained by below-ground competition with grass

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Climate change mitigation: A spatial analysis of global land suitability for clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation

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Soil–vegetation relationships in cerrados under different fire frequencies

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