Topography as a key factor driving atmospheric nitrogen exchanges in arctic terrestrial ecosystems

KJ Stewart, P Grogan, DS Coxson… - Soil Biology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Identifying the key drivers of nitrogen cycling processes that influence gaseous N exchanges
in arctic ecosystems is essential for predicting the response of northern systems to changes …

Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change

PA Wookey, R Aerts, RD Bardgett… - Global Change …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Global environmental change, related to climate change and the deposition of airborne N‐
containing contaminants, has already resulted in shifts in plant community composition …

Tundra wildfire triggers sustained lateral nutrient loss in Alaskan Arctic

BW Abbott, AV Rocha, A Shogren… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is creating widespread ecosystem disturbance across the permafrost zone,
including a rapid increase in the extent and severity of tundra wildfire. The expansion of this …

Host Identity as a Driver of Moss-Associated N2 Fixation Rates in Alaska

JEM Stuart, H Holland-Moritz, LR Lewis, M Jean… - Ecosystems, 2021 - Springer
Moss-associated N 2 fixation provides a substantial but heterogeneous input of new N to
nutrient-limited ecosystems at high latitudes. In spite of the broad diversity of mosses found …

Evergreen shrubs dominate responses to experimental summer warming and fertilization in Canadian mesic low arctic tundra

TJ Zamin, MS Bret‐Harte, P Grogan - Journal of Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change in arctic tundra is projected to increase soil fertility, which may alter plant
community composition and ecosystem processes by shifting niche space to favour …

Feedback of carbon and nitrogen cycles enhances carbon sequestration in the terrestrial biosphere

G Esser, J Kattge, A Sakalli - Global Change Biology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The efforts to explain the 'missing sink'for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) have
included in recent years the role of nitrogen as an important constraint for biospheric carbon …

Phosphorus Fertilization Increases the Abundance and Nitrogenase Activity of the Cyanolichen Pseudocyphellaria crocata in Hawaiian Montane Forests

JW Benner, S Conroy, CK Lunch, N Toyoda… - Biotropica, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen‐fixing epiphytes (especially lichens with a cyanobacterial symbiont—cyanolichens)
have the potential to contribute significant amounts of nitrogen (N) to montane tropical …

Moss-specific changes in nitrogen fixation following two decades of warming, shading, and fertilizer addition

PL Sorensen, S Lett, A Michelsen - Plant Ecology, 2012 - Springer
Climate warming will induce changes in Arctic ecosystem carbon balance, but besides
climate, nitrogen availability is a critical controlling factor of carbon cycling. It is therefore …

Loss of nitrogen fixing capacity in a montane lichen is linked to increased nitrogen deposition

PD Crittenden, CJ Ellis, RI Smith, W Wanek… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The circumboreal/circumpolar N2‐fixing lichen Stereocaulon vesuvianum is among the most
widespread and abundant fruticose species in montane Britain but has lost the capacity to fix …

Small-scale spatial patterns in N2-fixation and nutrient availability in an arctic hummock–hollow ecosystem

KJ Stewart, D Coxson, SD Siciliano - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
Atmospheric nitrogen that is fixed by associative cyanobacteria can be released into the
surrounding soil environment providing a key source of N for arctic ecosystems. Yet, little is …