Human societies depend on an Earth system that operates within a constrained range of
nutrient availability, yet the recent trajectory of terrestrial nitrogen (N) availability is uncertain …

The nitrogen (N) economics of plants are generally described in terms of functional traits and
how these affect N availability in a given environment. However, recent studies have shown …

Nutritive, but detrimental if at high levels, several nitrogen (N) forms involved in air and soil
biogeochemical reactions constitute the N load trees assimilate. Although a large body of …

Climate warming has induced substantial advances in the onset of vegetation green-up in
the northern hemisphere during recent decades. To date, however, the temporal changes in …

Increased soil nutrient availability can promote tree growth while drought impairs metabolic
functioning and induces tree mortality. However, limited information is available about the …

Climate changes, especially increased temperatures, and precipitation changes, have
significant impacts on vegetation phenology. However, the response of vegetation …

Woody plants rely on the remobilization of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) reserves to support
growth and survival when resource demand exceeds supply at seasonally predictable times …

To study the response of Pinus tabulaeformis Carrière, an endemic species in China, to N
deposition and the adaptive mechanisms involved, the leaves and fine roots functional traits …

Bud-burst and leaf-senescence determine the length of the growing season for deciduous
trees and therefore the duration of potential carbon assimilation with consequences on …

Aims Belowground carbon transfer from plant to plant has been extensively described, but
such transfer for nitrogen has been less thoroughly investigated when the donor is a non-N …