The fields of ecology and evolutionary biology are implicitly connected. A new theory that links the global distribution and evolution of nitrogen-fixing trees uses the universal language of mathematics to make this connection more explicit.
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Houlton, B. Nitrogen fixation: Fixing evolution in global forests. Nature Plants 1, 15205 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.205
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