Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

When snow blankets the landscape, it may seem like life slows down. But beneath the surface, an entire world of activity is ...

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are some of the most abundant microorganisms in the ocean and play a key role in nitrogen cycling. Yet, despite their ubiquity, scientists have long puzzled over how ...

How does climate change influence the planet’s nitrogen cycle? This is what a recent study published in Nitrogen Cycling hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated climate change’s impact ...

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) the influence of parasitic fungi on the ...

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Nitrogen Cycling—a premier, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing multidisciplinary research on the nitrogen cycle. Our mission is to ...

Dr. Tanja Stratmann’s project, titled “Nitrogen Cycling in Modern Sponges with Clues About Their Role in Past Oceans” (SPYCLING for short), focuses on marine sponges as representatives of the oldest ...

Parasitic fungi alter the nitrogen cycle The IOW researchers analyzed the phytoplankton Dolichospermum, an ecologically important nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium, and examined its susceptibility to ...

Starting in about 2010, many towns on the Cape began trying to increase shellfish populations and credit them for their nitrogen-removal work.

Tropical forests have long been treated as slow, patient allies in the fight against climate change, quietly locking away ...