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Posts by Thomas Bytnerowicz
NCAR’s Mesa Lab is literally a science castle dedicated to understanding our planet in an open and collaborative way, and leading the world in that effort. We cannot let this happen.
At #AGU25? Let’s link up and chat!
My poster is this afternoon (see photo).
Tomorrow are sessions I helped organize: Quantifying rates and coupling of biogeochemical cycles in terrestrial ecosystems (oral 10:30-12:00; poster 14:15-17:45)
We applied a novel method that we previously developed to measure N fixation in individual plants over the course of several weeks after inducing a drastic change in soil N supply. This method makes non-destructive measurements at the whole-symbiosis scale. doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Time lags in up-regulation varied by symbiotic type, with N fixation starting earlier in rhizobia symbioses but increasing faster once it started in actinorhizal symbioses.
Time lags in down-regulation varied by growing temperature and biome of origin.
Time lags are possibly long enough to hinder the competitive benefit of facultative N fixation and clearly long enough to cause high losses of plant-available N from forests with a relatively high abundance of N-fixing trees.
New paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social! We quantified the time lags in the regulation of symbiotic #nitrogen fixation. With Kevin Griffin and Duncan Menge. doi.org/10.1111/nph....