While invasive plant species primarily occur in disturbed, high-resource environments, many
species have invaded ecosystems characterized by low nutrient, water, and light availability …

Herbaceous vegetation under temperate climatic conditions generally shows nitrogen-or
phosphorus-limited plant growth, which creates conditions for a high botanical diversity. Is …

Publisher Summary In this chapter, the advances that have been made in understanding the
ecology of the mineral nutrition of wild plants from terrestrial ecosystems have been …

Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) availability limit plant growth in most terrestrial ecosystems.
This review examines how variation in the relative availability of N and P, as reflected by N …

Summary 1 Ratios of nitrogen to phosphorus (N: P) in plant foliage have been used to
assess nutrient limitation in wetland ecosystems and to indicate nitrogen saturation …

Few wetland studies from temperate North America have related either species richness or
plant community composition to any direct measure of nutrient availability, or examined …

The use of nutrient concentrations in plant biomass as easily measured indicators of nutrient
availability and limitation has been the subject of a controversial debate. In particular, it has …

We evaluated whether the kind of nutrient limitation (N, P, or K) may affect species richness–
productivity patterns and subsequently may explain variation in species richness and in …

The conservation or restoration of seminatural vegetation often involves measures that
influence the availability of nutrients and consequently the plant species composition. The …

To elucidate the causes of the sharp decline in plant species diversity in heathland and
nutrient-poor grasslands in The Netherlands, we investigated the spatial variation in plant …