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Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-457-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-457-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
Research article
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25 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 25 Jan 2019

Neglecting plant–microbe symbioses leads to underestimation of modeled climate impacts

Mingjie Shi, Joshua B. Fisher, Richard P. Phillips, and Edward R. Brzostek

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The ability of plants to slow climate change by taking up carbon hinges in part on there being ample soil nitrogen. We used a model that accounts for the carbon cost to plants of supporting nitrogen-acquiring microbes to explore how nitrogen limitation affects climate. Our model predicted that nitrogen limitation will enhance temperature and decrease precipitation; thus, our results suggest that carbon spent to support nitrogen-acquiring microbes is a critical component of the Earth's climate.
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