A new paper has come out from the Sala Lab in Oecologia. The paper entitled “Preference for different inorganic nitrogen forms among plant functional types and species of the Patagonian steppe” shows that shrubs and grasses absorb preferentially different forms of inorganic nitrogen. Grasses which have fibrous and shallow roots absorb inorganic N mainly as ammonium, which is the main…
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SARAS Workshop: “Abrupt grass-woodland transitions: Determinants and consequences for ecosystem services”
The South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies (SARAS) will gather scientists and artists in Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay from December 16th to 19th, to synthesize our understanding of the determinants and consequences of abrupt grass-woodland transitions in different ecological systems. This is an interdiciplinary worshop involving economists, natural resource managers, ecologists, artists, and hydrologists.