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Nitrogen fixation: Fixing evolution in global forests

Nature Plants volume 1, Article number: 15205 (2015) Cite this article

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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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Figure 1: Pterocarpus officinalis, a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing tree in the Fabaceae family, in a remote tropical forest at the Bladen Nature Reserve, Belize.

STEVEN W. BREWER

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  1. Benjamin Z. Houlton is in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616-8627, USA.,

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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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