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A unifying framework for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere.

scientific article

A “toy model” analysis of causes of nitrogen limitation in terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article published in 2022

A “toy” model of biogeochemical dynamics on climate gradients

scientific article published in 2021

Agricultural intensification: will land spared from farming be land spared for nature?

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Agricultural potential and actualized development in Hawai’i: an airborne LiDAR survey of the leeward Kohala field system (Hawai’i Island)

article

Agriculture in Brazil: impacts, costs, and opportunities for a sustainable future

article

Agriculture. Nutrient imbalances in agricultural development.

scientific article published in June 2009

Alien Grass Invasion and Fire In the Seasonal Submontane Zone of Hawai'i

scientific article published on 09 May 2006

Amplified temperature dependence in ecosystems developing on the lava flows of Mauna Loa, Hawai'i

scientific article

An Exotic Tree Alters Decomposition and Nutrient Cycling in A Hawaiian Montane Forest

An Invader Alters Germination and Growth of Native Dominant Tree in Hawai'i

scientific article published in 1991

Anion fluxes in three Indiana forests

scientific article published on 01 January 1984

Are patterns in nutrient limitation belowground consistent with those aboveground: results from a 4 million year chronosequence

Barriers to shrub reestablishment following fire in the seasonal submontane zone of Hawai'i

scientific article published on April 1993

Beyond Global Warming: Ecology and Global Change

article

Bioassays of nutrient limitation in a tropical rain forest soil.

scientific article

Biogeochemistry

scientific article published in 1984

Biological Invasion by Myrica Faya in Hawai'i: Plant Demography, Nitrogen Fixation, Ecosystem Effects

scientific article (publication date: February 1989)

Biological Invasion by Myrica faya Alters Ecosystem Development in Hawaii

scientific article (publication date: 6 November 1987)

Biological Invasions and Ecosystem Processes: Towards an Integration of Population Biology and Ecosystem Studies

scholarly article by Peter Vitousek published in February 1990

Biological Invasions by Exotic Grasses, the Grass/Fire Cycle, and Global Change

article by Carla M. D'Antonio & Peter Vitousek published November 1992 in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

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

scientific article (publication date: 5 July 2013)

Building and testing models of long-term agricultural intensification and population dynamics: A case study from the Leeward Kohala Field System, Hawai’i

article

Business strategies for conservation on private lands: Koa forestry as a case study

scientific article published on 16 June 2006

Carbon 13 exchanges between the atmosphere and biosphere

article

Cattle Grazing, Forest Loss, and Fuel Loading in a Dry Forest Ecosystem at Pu'u Wa'aWa'a Ranch, Hawai'i1

scientific article

Cellulose (delta)18O is an index of leaf-to-air vapor pressure difference (VPD) in tropical plants

scientific article

Changes in Soil Phosphorus Fractions and Ecosystem Dynamics across a Long Chronosequence in Hawaii

article

Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Changing sources of nutrients during four million years of ecosystem development

scientific article published in Nature

Changing sources of strontium to soils and ecosystems across the Hawaiian Islands

scholarly article

Chinese agriculture: An experiment for the world

scientific article published in Nature

Climate Cycles, Geomorphological Change, and the Interpretation of Soil and Ecosystem Development

article

Combining spectroscopic and isotopic techniques gives a dynamic view of phosphorus cycling in soil

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Consensus on climate change

scholarly article by Gian-Reto Walther et al published December 2005 in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Constraints of Climate and Age on Soil Development in Hawai‘i

Contrasting Predictors of Fern versus Angiosperm Decomposition in a Common Garden

scientific article published on 31 October 2008

Controls of nitrogen cycling evaluated along a well-characterized climate gradient.

scientific article published on 28 January 2017

Convergence and contrast in the community structure of Bacteria, Fungi and Archaea along a tropical elevation-climate gradient.

scientific article

Cross-system comparisons of soil nitrogen transformations and nitrous oxide flux in tropical forest ecosystems

scientific article published in 1987

Decomposition and potential nitrogen fixation in <i>Dicranopteris linearis</i> litter on Mauna Loa, Hawai'i

scientific article published in 1997

Deliberate Introductions of Species: Research Needs

scientific article (publication date: August 1999)

Denitrification in a clearcut Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantation in the southeastern US

Dependence of Forest Structure and Dynamics on Substrate Age and Ecosystem Development

article

Development of a diverse epiphyte community in response to phosphorus fertilization

scientific article

Diversity of putative ericoid mycorrhizal fungi increases with soil age and progressive phosphorus limitation across a 4.1-million-year chronosequence

scientific article

Ecological Lessons from Oceanic Islands

scientific article published in 1996

Ecosystem Succession and Nutrient Retention: A Hypothesis

scientific article published on 25 April 2006

Ecosystem constraints to symbiotic nitrogen fixers: A simple model and its implications

scientific article published on 19 January 2005

Ecosystem development on Hawaiian lava flows: biomass and species composition

article

Effects of Extreme Drought on Vegetation of a Lava Flow on Mauna Loa, Hawai'i ⬇️

Effects of Soil Nutrient Availability on Investment in Acquisition of N and P in Hawaiian Rain Forests

scholarly article by Kathleen K. Treseder & Peter Vitousek published April 2001 in Ecology

Effects of Soil Resources on Plant Invasion and Community Structure in Californian Serpentine Grassland

scientific article (publication date: April 1990)

Effects of nutrient amendments on fine root biomass in a primary successional forest in Hawai'i

scientific article published on December 1989

Effects of plant composition and diversity on nutrient cycling

scientific article

Element interactions in forest ecosystems: succession, allometry and input-output budgets

scientific article published on 17 September 2005

Elevational and age gradients in hawaiian montane rainforest: foliar and soil nutrients

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

Endangered Island Ecosystems

scientific article published in 1987

Enhanced nitrogen deposition over China

scientific article published on 20 February 2013

Environmental filtering controls soil biodiversity in wet tropical ecosystems

scientific article published in 2022

Environmental impacts of nitrogen emissions in China and the role of policies in emission reduction

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Erosion and landscape development affect plant nutrient status in the Hawaiian Islands

scientific article published on 09 November 2004

Erosion, Geological History, and Indigenous Agriculture: A Tale of Two Valleys

Evidence for a Historic Change Occurring in China

scientific article published on 28 December 2015

FACTORS INFLUENCING DYNAMICS OF TWO INVASIVE C4GRASSES IN SEASONALLY DRY HAWAIIAN WOODLANDS

scientific article published in 2001

Factors Influencing Dynamics of Two Invasive C 4 Grasses in Seasonally Dry Hawaiian Woodlands

scientific article published in 2001

Fertilizer nitrogen recovery efficiencies in crop production systems of China with and without consideration of the residual effect of nitrogen

article

Fine-root biomass and nutrient cycling in <i>Aristida stricta</i> in a North Carolina coastal plain savanna

scientific article published on 19 June 2008

Foliar 15N natural abundance in Hawaiian rainforest: patterns and possible mechanisms

scientific article

Foliar Nutrients During Long-Term Soil Development in Hawaiian Montane Rain Forest

scientific article published on 09 May 2006

Foliar ẟ15N patterns in legumes and non-N fixers across a climate gradient, Hawaiʻi Island, USA

scientific article published in January 2022

Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

article

Functional trait‐based restoration alters nutrient cycling and invasion rates in <scp>H</scp>awaiian lowland wet forest

scientific article published in 2023

Fungal endophyte communities reflect environmental structuring across a Hawaiian landscape.

scientific article

Grassland ecology: complexity of nutrient constraints

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Ground-based and remotely sensed nutrient availability across a tropical landscape

scientific article

HUMAN ALTERATION OF THE GLOBAL NITROGEN CYCLE: SOURCES AND CONSEQUENCES

article

Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis

scholarly article by Peter Vitousek et al published June 1986 in BioScience

Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems

scientific article (publication date: 25 July 1997)

Imaging spectroscopy studies of Hawaiian ecosystems, carbon properties, and disturbance

In Appreciation of Professor Dieter Mueller-Dombois

scientific article published in April 2012

Indicators of soil fertility and opportunities for precontact agriculture in Kona, Hawai'i

scientific article published in 2014

Insightful, Scholarly, and Synthetic: Eville Gorham and the Chemistry of Surface Waters

scientific article published in 2014

Integrated reactive nitrogen budgets and future trends in China.

scientific article

Integrated soil–crop system management for food security ⬇️

scientific article published on March 28, 2011

Intensive Harvesting and Site Preparation Decrease Soil Nitrogen Availability in Young Plantations

scholarly article

Interactions of climate change with biological invasions and land use in the Hawaiian Islands: Modeling the fate of endemic birds using a geographic information system ⬇️

scientific article

Interactive effects of elevated CO2, N deposition and climate change on plant litter quality in a California annual grassland

scientific article

Introduced Canopy Tree Species Effect on the Soil Microbial Community in a Montane Tropical Forest

article

Introduced species in Hawaii. biological effects and opportunities for ecological research ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1987

Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue on ecological stoichiometry and global change

scientific article published in November 2012

Invasions and ecosystems: vulnerabilities and the contribution of new technologies

Invasive plants transform the three-dimensional structure of rain forests ⬇️

scholarly article

Irrigated taro (Colocasia esculenta) farming in North Kohala, Hawai‘i: sedimentology and soil nutrient analyses

scientific article published in March 2013

Islands: Biological Diversity and Ecosystem Function.

scientific article published in 1997

J. Proctor (ed.). 1989. Mineral nutrients intropical forest and savanna ecosystems. Special Publications Series of The British Ecological Society No. 9. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, v + 473 pages. ISBN 0-632-02559-X. Price: £47.50 (har

scientific article published on 10 July 2009

Landscape-level variation in forest structure and biogeochemistry across a substrate age gradient in Hawaii

scientific article

Landslides, Alien Species, and the Diversity of a Hawaiian Montane Mesic Ecosystem1

article

Leaf Morphology Along Environmental Gradients in Hawaiian Metrosideros Polymorpha

scientific article published on 04 May 2006

Litter Decomposition on the Mauna Loa Environmental Matrix, Hawai'i: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Models

scientific article published in 1994

Litter quality versus soil microbial community controls over decomposition: a quantitative analysis.

scientific article

Litterfall, Nutrient Cycling, and Nutrient Limitation in Tropical Forests

scientific article published on 09 May 2006

Long-term effects of agriculture on soil carbon pools and carbon chemistry along a Hawaiian environmental gradient

scientific article published in 2012

Mahele: Sustaining Communities through Small-Scale Inshore Fishery Catch and Sharing Networks

scientific article published in July 2013

Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere-biosphere models: Toward continuous distributions of vegetation's functional properties

scientific article published on 04 February 2004

Microbial transformations of labelled nitrogen in a clear-cut pine plantation

scientific article published on 01 March 1986

Microclimate Change and Effect on Fire Following Forest-Grass Conversion in Seasonally Dry Tropical Woodland1

Mineral control of soil organic carbon storage and turnover

scientific article published in Nature

Mineralogical controls on soil black carbon preservation

article

Morella cerifera invasion and nitrogen cycling on a lowland Hawaiian lava flow

article by Erin L. Kurten et al published 27 February 2007 in Biological Invasions

N:P stoichiometry and protein:RNA ratios in vascular plants: an evaluation of the growth-rate hypothesis

scientific article

Nitrification Potentials in Primary and Secondary Succession

scientific article published in 1981

Nitrogen Transformations Following Tropical Forest Felling and Burning on a Volcanic Soil

article

Nitrogen and nature

scientific article

Nitrogen deposition accelerates soil carbon sequestration in tropical forests

scientific article published on 20 April 2021

Nitrogen dynamics along a climate gradient on geologically old substrate, Kaua'i, Hawai'i

scientific article published on 30 October 2018

Nitrogen in Agriculture: Balancing the Cost of an Essential Resource

Nitrogen stable isotopic composition of leaves and soil: Tropical versus temperate forests

article

Nitrogen transformations and nitrous oxide flux in a tropical deciduous forest in México

scientific article published on November 1991

Nitrous oxide flux following tropical land clearing

scientific article published in 1989

Nitrous oxide flux from dry tropical forests

scientific article published in 1989

Nodule Biomass of the Nitrogen-fixing Alien Myrica faya Ait. in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park ⬇️

Nutrient Cycling and Nutrient Use Efficiency

scientific article published on 26 July 2002

Nutrient Dynamics and Nitrogen Trace Gas Flux During Ecosystem Development in Montane Rain Forest

article

Nutrient Limitation to Nitrogen Fixation in Young Volcanic Sites

scientific article published in 1999

Nutrient and mineralogical control on dissolved organic C, N and P fluxes and stoichiometry in Hawaiian soils

article

Nutrient dynamics on a precipitation gradient in Hawai'i

scientific article published in February 1998

Nutrient limitations to plant growth during primary succession in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

article

Nutrient uptake by a diverse spring ephemeral community

scientific article published on 01 January 1980

Oceanic islands as model systems for ecological studies

scientific article published in 2002

On regression and residuals: response to Knops et al.

scientific article published in May 1997

Opportunities and constraints for intensive agriculture in the Hawaiian archipelago prior to European contact

article published in 2009

Pamela Matson, ESA President 2001-2002 ⬇️

biographical journal article announcing president of the Ecological Society of America

Parent material and pedogenic thresholds: observations and a simple model

Pedogenic Thresholds and Soil Process Domains in Basalt-Derived Soils

Persistence of rock-derived nutrients in the wet tropical forests of La Selva, Costa Rica

scientific article published in March 2006

Plant acclimation to long-term high nitrogen deposition in an N-rich tropical forest

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Policy distortions, farm size, and the overuse of agricultural chemicals in China

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Potential Nitrogen Fixation During Primary Succession in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park

Potential ecosystem-level effects of genetic variation among populations of Metrosideros polymorpha from a soil fertility gradient in Hawaii

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Precipitation, decomposition and litter decomposability of Metrosideros polymorpha in native forests on Hawai'i

scientific article published in 2000

Precontact vegetation and soil nutrient status in the shadow of Kohala Volcano, Hawaii

scholarly article by Oliver A. Chadwick et al published September 2007 in Geomorphology

Prevalence of Tree Regeneration by Sprouting and Seeding Along a Rainfall Gradient in Hawai'i

scientific article published on 21 July 2009

Primary Productivity and Ecosystem Development Along an Elevational Gradient on Mauna Loa, Hawai'i

scientific article published in 1997

Primary succession of Hawaiian montane rain forest on a chronosequence of eight lava flows

scientific article

Process modeling of controls on nitrogen trace gas emissions from soils worldwide

article

Processes Regulating Soil Emissions of NO and N^2O in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest

scientific article published in 1993

Producing more grain with lower environmental costs

scientific article published on 3 September 2014

Quantitative Analysis of Pedogenic Thresholds and Domains in Volcanic Soils

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Rain, Sun, Soil, and Sweat: A Consideration of Population Limits on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) before European Contact

scientific article published on 10 July 2017

Rapid nutrient cycling in leaf litter from invasive plants in Hawai'i

scientific article published on 3 August 2004

Remote analysis of biological invasion and biogeochemical change ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 March 2005

Reprint: Building and testing models of long-term agricultural intensification and population dynamics: A case study from the Leeward Kohala Field System, Hawai’i

scientific article published in 2012

Resilience against exotic species invasion in a tropical montane forest

article

Resource Optimization and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation

Resource-use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems

scientific article

Response--Nutrient Imbalances

scientific article published in Science

Response: Commentary: Rain, Sun, Soil, and Sweat: A Consideration of Population Limits on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) before European Contact

scientific article published on 21 June 2018

Restoration of ‘Āina Malo‘o on Hawai‘i Island: Expanding Biocultural Relationships

scientific article published on 31 October 2018

Restoring people and productivity to Puanui: challenges and opportunities in the restoration of an intensive rain-fed Hawaiian field system

scientific article published in 2017

Risky Business: Temporal and Spatial Variation in Preindustrial Dryland Agriculture

journal article from 'Human Ecology' published in 2006

Seedling and clonal recruitment of the invasive tree Psidium cattleianum: Implications for management of native Hawaiian forests

scientific article published in 1990

Significant Acidification in Major Chinese Croplands

scientific article

Soil Development and Nitrogen Turnover in Montane Rainforest Soils on Hawai'i

scientific article published in 1983

Soil Organic Matter Dynamics Along Gradients in Temperature and Land Use on the Island of Hawaii

scientific article published in 1995

Soil Phosphorus Exchange as Affected by Drying-Rewetting of Three Soils From a Hawaiian Climatic Gradient

scientific article published in 2021

Soil Phosphorus and Agricultural Development in the Leeward Kohala Field System, Island of Hawai‘i1

article

Soil fertility response to Ulex europaeus invasion and restoration efforts

scientific article published on 20 April 2018

Soil-Food-Environment-Health Nexus for Sustainable Development

scientific article published in 2021

Solution chemistry profiles of mixed-conifer forests before and after fire

scientific article published in 1994

Sources of nutrients to windward agricultural systems in pre-contact Hawai'i

scientific article published in September 2009

Stoichiometry of ferns in Hawaii: implications for nutrient cycling

scientific article

Strengthening Agronomy Research for Food Security and Environmental Quality

scientific article published in February 2016

Technical Report: Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle: Sources and Consequences

scientific article published in 1997

Temperature influences carbon accumulation in moist tropical forests

scientific article

Terrestrial ecosystem production: A process model based on global satellite and surface data

scientific article published on 06 February 2008

Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen-phosphorus interactions

scientific article

Terrestrial transects for global change research

scientific article published on 06 November 2004

The Ahupua‘a of Puanui: A Resource for Understanding Hawaiian Rain-Fed Agriculture

The Hawaiian Islands as a Model System for Ecosystem Studies ⬇️

scientific article published in 1995

The Influence of Nutrient Availability on Soil Organic Matter Turnover Estimated by Incubations and Radiocarbon Modeling

article

The Mauna Loa environmental matrix: foliar and soil nutrients

scientific article

The Nature of Nutrient Limitation in Plant Communities

scientific article published on 26 July 2002

The Problem of Nutrients Nutrient Cycling in Tropical Forest Ecosystems Carl Jordan

scientific article published in 1987

The ecology of the climbing fern Dicranopteris linearis on windward Mauna Loa, Hawaii

scientific article published in 1998

The global nitrogen cycle in the twenty-first century

scientific article

The globalization of N deposition: ecosystem consequences in tropical environments

article

The globalization of N deposition: ecosystem consequences in tropical environments

scientific article published in 1999

The response of native species to removal of invasive exotic grasses in a seasonally dry Hawaiian woodland

article

The response of plants to elevated CO2 : IV. Two deciduous-forest tree communities

scientific article published on 01 June 1986

The soil and plant biogeochemistry sampling design for The National Ecological Observatory Network

article

Top-Down Analysis of Forest Structure and Biogeochemistry Across Hawaiian Landscapes

article

Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation

article

Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation

scientific article published in 2002

Understanding ecosystem retrogression

article by Duane A Peltzer et al published November 2010 in Ecological Monographs

Use of the Exotic Tree Myrica faya by Native and Exotic Birds in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park ⬇️

Using plant functional traits to restore Hawaiian rainforest

article

Variation in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) land use indicates production and population peaks prior to European contact

scientific article

Variation in foliar δ13C in Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha: a case of internal resistance?

scientific article

Vegetation Effects on Soil Organic Matter Chemistry of Aggregate Fractions in a Hawaiian Forest

article

Vegetation–Climate Interactions among Native and Invasive Species in Hawaiian Rainforest

article

Water balance affects foliar and soil nutrients differently

scientific article published in August 2022

Weathering versus atmospheric sources of strontium in ecosystems on young volcanic soils.

scientific article published on November 1999

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