Soil and Land Plant Nitrogen
Systematics:
Evans RD (2001) Physiological mechanisms influencing plant
nitrogen isotope composition. TRENDS in Plant Science 6: 121126.
A short, sweet review.
Evans RD (2007) Soil nitrogen isotope composition. In Stable
Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Science, 2nd Edition
(Michener, R. H., and Lajtha, K., eds.). Blackwell Scientific
Publications, Boston, pp. 83-98.
At last, a review of N isotopes in soils that is short and to the point.
Pardo LH, Nadelhoffer KJ (2010) Using nitrogen isotope ratios
to assess terrestrial ecosystems at regional and global scales.
In: Isoscapes: Understanding movement, pattern and process
on Earth through isotope mapping (JB West, GJ Bowen, TE
Dawson, KP Tu, eds), Springer, New York, pp 21-249
Another longish review with a different slant than Evans (2007).
Supplemental
(read the abstracts for all of these except Högberg 1997)
Taylor AFS, Fransson PM, Högberg P, Högberg MN, Plamboeck
AH (2003) Species level patterns in 13C and 15N abundance of
ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungal sporocarps. New
Phytologist 159: 757-774.
Another investigation of dreadful fungal effects.
Näsholm T, Ekblad A, Nordin A, Giesler R, Högberg M, Högberg
P (1998) Boreal forest plants take up organic nitrogen. Nature
392: 914-916.
A short sweet paper laying out the evidence that trees eat organic
matter.
Hobbie EA, Macko SA, Shugart HH (1999) Insights into nitrogen
and carbon dynamics of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi
from isotopic evidence. Oecologia 118: 353-360.
The authors study soil evolution in a chronosequence created by
deglaciation and the effects due to fungi.
Hobbie EA, Macko SA, Shugart HH (1999) Interpretation of
nitrogen isotope signatures using the NIFTE model. Oecologia
120: 405-415.
Hobbie et al. develop a mass balance model to examine soil N
evolution in Alaska.
Swap RJ, Aranibar JN, Dowty PR, Gilhooly WP, Macko SA
(2004) Natural abundance of 13C and 15N in C3 and C4
vegetation of southern Africa: patterns and implications. Global
Change Biology 10: 350-358.
Careful examination of relationship between rainfall abundance and
plant N isotope values.
Craine JM, et al. (2009) Global patterns of foliar nitrogen
isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal
fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability.
New Phytologist 183: 980–992
Whopping big meta-analysis of global patterns in 15N values. Check
this one out if you have time.
Högberg P. (1997) Tansley review No 95 - 15N natural
abundance in soil-plant systems. New Phytologist 137: 179203.
Don‘t need to bother with this one now, but it is a good old review.