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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

A team of scientists has shown that rice paddies in two of China's most important grain producing regions release soil nitrogen in strikingly ...