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Duncan N. L. Menge

Duncan N. L. Menge

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
5610
World Ranking
7097
National Ranking
2390

Overview

Duncan N. L. Menge is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on soil science and ecology. The scientist has contributed to numerous studies that explore nutrient dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems, particularly nitrogen cycling and its interaction with various environmental factors.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to nitrogen fixation, soil emissions, and ecosystem nutrient dynamics. Notable papers include:

  • Meta-analysis on the potential for increasing nitrogen losses from intensifying tropical agriculture (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • A roadmap for sampling and scaling biological nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystems (2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Temperature sensitivity of woody nitrogen fixation across species and growing temperatures (2022, Nature Plants)
  • Nitrogen-fixing trees increase soil nitrous oxide emissions: a meta-analysis (2021, Ecology)
  • Exploring the Role of Cryptic Nitrogen Fixers in Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Frontier in Nitrogen Cycling Research (2022, Ecosystems)

Research areas of focus reflect their publication topics and involve detailed examination of soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and peatlands and wetlands ecology. Other thematic interests include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, fire effects on ecosystems, legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis, and bioenergy crop production and management.

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Bioenergy crop production and management

Frequent collaborators with whom Duncan N. L. Menge has co-authored work include:

  • Steven S. Perakis
  • Sian Kou-Giesbrecht
  • Jennifer L. Funk
  • Alexandra Huddell
  • Palani R. Akana

Duncan's articles are commonly published in journals specialized in ecosystem and environmental sciences, with multiple publications in the following venues:

  • Ecosystems
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecology
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Their subfields of study include soil science, ecology, global and planetary change, plant science, and environmental chemistry, reflecting a broad and interdisciplinary approach to understanding environmental processes and nutrient cycling. This body of work contributes to an improved understanding of terrestrial ecosystem function under varying environmental pressures.

Best Publications

  • Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems.

    Peter M. Vitousek;Duncan N. L. Menge;Sasha C. Reed;Cory C. Cleveland

  • The Nitrogen Paradox in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

    Lars O. Hedin;Alexander R. Barron

  • Coastal oceanography sets the pace of rocky intertidal community dynamics

    B. A. Menge;J. Lubchenco;M. E. S. Bracken;F. Chan

  • Simulated global changes alter phosphorus demand in annual grassland

    Duncan N. L. Menge;Christopher B. Field

  • Nitrogen fixation in different biogeochemical niches along a 120 000-year chronosequence in New Zealand

    Duncan N. L. Menge;Lars O. Hedin

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus limitation over long-term ecosystem development in terrestrial ecosystems

    Duncan N.L. Menge;Duncan N.L. Menge;Lars O. Hedin;Stephen Wilson Pacala

  • Feedbacks between plant N demand and rhizosphere priming depend on type of mycorrhizal association

    Benjamin N. Sulman;Edward R. Brzostek;Chiara Medici;Elena Shevliakova

  • Dynamics of coastal meta-ecosystems: the intermittent upwelling hypothesis and a test in rocky intertidal regions

    Bruce A. Menge;Duncan N. L. Menge;Duncan N. L. Menge

  • Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests.

    Maga Gei;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers

  • Facultative versus obligate nitrogen fixation strategies and their ecosystem consequences

    Duncan N L Menge;Duncan N L Menge;Simon Asher Levin;Lars O. Hedin

  • Light regulates tropical symbiotic nitrogen fixation more strongly than soil nitrogen

    Benton N Taylor;Duncan N L Menge

  • Diversity of nitrogen fixation strategies in Mediterranean legumes.

    Duncan N. L. Menge;Amelia A. Wolf;Jennifer L. Funk

  • Diverse Mycorrhizal Associations Enhance Terrestrial C Storage in a Global Model

    Benjamin N. Sulman;Benjamin N. Sulman;Benjamin N. Sulman;Elena Shevliakova;Edward R. Brzostek;Stephanie N. Kivlin

  • Large losses of inorganic nitrogen from tropical rainforests suggest a lack of nitrogen limitation

    E. N. J. Brookshire;Stefan Gerber;Stefan Gerber;Duncan N. L. Menge;Duncan N. L. Menge;Duncan N. L. Menge;Lars O. Hedin

  • Evolutionary tradeoffs can select against nitrogen fixation and thereby maintain nitrogen limitation

    Duncan N. L. Menge;Simon A. Levin;Lars O. Hedin

  • Nitrogen fixation strategies can explain the latitudinal shift in nitrogen‐fixing tree abundance

    Duncan N. L. Menge;Jeremy W. Lichstein;Gregorio Ángeles-Pérez

  • Higher survival drives the success of nitrogen‐fixing trees through succession in Costa Rican rainforests

    Duncan N. L. Menge;Robin L. Chazdon

  • Meta-analysis on the potential for increasing nitrogen losses from intensifying tropical agriculture.

    Alexandra M. Huddell;Gillian L. Galford;Katherine L. Tully;Cynthia Crowley

  • Gauging the impact of meta-analysis on ecology

    Marc W. Cadotte;Lea R. Mehrkens;Duncan N. L. Menge;Duncan N. L. Menge

  • Nitrogen-fixing trees inhibit growth of regenerating Costa Rican rainforests.

    Benton N. Taylor;Robin L. Chazdon;Benedicte Bachelot;Duncan N. L. Menge

  • Rapid Assessment of Lepidoptera Predation Rates in Neotropical Forest Fragments1

    Lian Pin Koh;Duncan N. L. Menge

  • Successional dynamics of nitrogen fixation and forest growth in regenerating Costa Rican rainforests

    Benton N. Taylor;Robin L. Chazdon;Duncan N. L. Menge

  • Emergence and maintenance of nutrient limitation over multiple timescales in terrestrial ecosystems.

    Duncan N. L. Menge;Stephen W. Pacala;Lars O. Hedin

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars O. Hedin
Lars O. Hedin Princeton University
Robin L. Chazdon
Robin L. Chazdon University of Connecticut
Kevin L. Griffin
Kevin L. Griffin Columbia University
Stephen W. Pacala
Stephen W. Pacala Princeton University
Steven S. Perakis
Steven S. Perakis United States Geological Survey
Jeremy W. Lichstein
Jeremy W. Lichstein University of Florida
Simon A. Levin
Simon A. Levin Princeton University
Jennifer L. Funk
Jennifer L. Funk University of California, Davis
Joshua S. Weitz
Joshua S. Weitz Georgia Institute of Technology
María Uriarte
María Uriarte Columbia University

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