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ArticleNature communications2026

Global variation of plant nitrogen acquisition strategies and their responses to decreasing nitrogen availability.

Jiaqiang Liao, Jinhua Mao, Jinlong Peng, Yiqi Luo, Mianhai Zheng, Lei Song, Chen Chen, Lingli Liu, Shuli Niu

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Jiaqiang LiaoKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6709-7394
Jinhua MaoKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jinlong PengKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3038-6595
Yiqi LuoSoil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4556-0218
Mianhai ZhengKey Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Lei SongKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Chen ChenKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Lingli LiuKey Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5696-3151
Shuli NiuKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. sniu@igsnrr.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-2864

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32588202
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants employ three N acquisition strategies to support productivity: root uptake from soils, symbiotic fixation, and resorption from senescing leaves. However, their global variation and coordination remain poorly understood. Here, we compile 3,193 field observations and use machine learning to map the three strategies and quantify their relative contributions. We estimate that global nitrogen uptake, fixation, and resorption amount to 559.2 ± 56.5 (mean ± standard deviation), 125.5 ± 7.2, and 279.3 ± 5.0 Tg N yr

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NitrogenPlantsNitrogen CycleNitrogen FixationPlant LeavesPlant RootsSoilTemperatureNitrogenSoil

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PMID42476992
PMCPMC13500584

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