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Benjamin Z. Houlton
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 83
Citations - 8038
Benjamin Z. Houlton is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem & Nitrogen cycle. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 71 publications receiving 6300 citations. Previous affiliations of Benjamin Z. Houlton include Max Planck Society & Princeton University.
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Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen–phosphorus interactions
TL;DR: It is suggested that depletion, soil barriers, and low-P parent material often cause ultimate limitation because they control the ecosystem mass balance of P and cause it to be an ultimate limiting nutrient.
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A unifying framework for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere
Benjamin Z. Houlton,Benjamin Z. Houlton,Benjamin Z. Houlton,Ying-Ping Wang,Peter M. Vitousek,Christopher B. Field +5 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that an analysis that couples biogeochemical cycling and biophysical mechanisms is sufficient to explain the principal geographical patterns of symbiotic N2 fixation on land, thus providing a basis for predicting the response of nutrient-limited ecosystems to climate change and increasing atmospheric CO2.
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Nitrogen inputs accelerate phosphorus cycling rates across a wide variety of terrestrial ecosystems.
TL;DR: The results suggest that terrestrial plants and microbes can allocate excess N to phosphatase enzymes, thus delaying the onset of single P limitation to plant productivity as can occur via human modifications to the global N cycle.
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Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis
Cory C. Cleveland,Alan R. Townsend,Philip G. Taylor,Silvia Alvarez-Clare,Mercedes M. C. Bustamante,George B. Chuyong,Solomon Z. Dobrowski,Pauline F. Grierson,Kyle E. Harms,Benjamin Z. Houlton,Alison Marklein,William J. Parton,Stephen Porder,Sasha C. Reed,Carlos A. Sierra,Whendee L. Silver,Edmund V. J. Tanner,William R. Wieder +17 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of carbon-nutrient-climate relationships in 113 sites across the tropical forest biome showed that mean annual temperature was the strongest predictor of aboveground NPP (ANPP) across all tropical forests, but this relationship was driven by distinct temperature differences between upland and lowland forests.
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Isotopic evidence for large gaseous nitrogen losses from tropical rainforests
TL;DR: It is reported that the two most widely purported mechanisms, an isotopic shift in N inputs or isotopic discrimination by leaching, fail to explain this climate-dependent trend in 15N/14N, and microbial denitrification appears to be the major determinant of N isotopic variations across differences in rainfall.