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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bauters, Marijn
• Mapenzi, Neville
• Kearsley, Elizabeth
• Vanlauwe, Bernard
• Boeckx, Pascal

Titel

Facultative nitrogen fixation by legumes in the central Congo basin is downregulated during late successional stages

Ist Teil von

• Biotropica, 2016-05, Vol.48 (3), p.281-284

Ort / Verlag

Hoboken: Association for Tropical Biology

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley Online Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The contribution of the legume community to the nitrogen cycle during natural forest regeneration remains poorly understood. We systematically assessed the changes in abundance and nodulation status of all legumes, across taxa and plant types, in a forest succession gradient in the Equateur Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Our results clearly show that symbiotic N₂ fixation is downregulated during late successional stages.