Publications

Benton N. Taylor, Robin L. Chazdon, and Duncan N.L. Menge. 2019. “Successional Dynamics of Nitrogen Fixation and Forest Growth in Regenerating Costa Rican Rainforests”. Ecology, 100, 4, Pp. e02637

Megan E. Wilcots, Benton N. Taylor, Erin K. Kuprewicz, and Duncan N.L. Menge. 2019. “Small Traits With Big Consequences: How Seed Traits of Nitrogen‐fixing Plants Might Influence Ecosystem Nutrient Cycling”. Oikos, 128, 5, Pp. 668-79

Benton N. Taylor and Laura R. Ostrowsky. 2019. “Nitrogen-Fixing and Non-Fixing Trees Differ in Leaf Chemistry and Defence But Not Herbivory in a Lowland Costa Rican Rain Forest”. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 35, 6, Pp. 270-79

Duncan N.L. Menge, Anna C. MacPherson, Thomas A. Bytnerowicz, Andrew W. Quebbeman, Naomi B. Schwartz, Benton N. Taylor, and Amelia A. Wolf. 2018. “Logarithmic Scales in Ecological Data Presentation May Cause Misinterpretation”. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2, 9, Pp. 1393-1402

Benton N. Taylor and Duncan N.L. Menge. 2018. “Light Regulates Tropical Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation More Strongly Than Soil Nitrogen”. Nature Plants, 4, 9, Pp. 655-61

Benton N. Taylor, Angelica E. Patterson, Moyosore Ajayi, Rachel Arkebauer, Karen Bao, Natalie Bray, Robert M. Elliott, Paul P.G. Gauthier, Jessica Gersony, Rebecca Gibson, Marceau Guerin, Sara Lavenhar, Caroline Leland, Leo Lemordant, Wenying Liao, Jerry Melillo, Ruth Oliver, Case M. Prager, William Schuster, Naomi B. Schwartz, Christa Shen, Katherine Pavlis Terlizzi, and Kevin L. Griffin. 2017. “Growth and Physiology of a Dominant Understory Shrub, Hamamelis Virginiana, Following Canopy Disturbance in a Temperate Hardwood Forest”. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 47, 2, Pp. 193-202

Duncan N.L. Menge, Sarah A. Batterman, Wenying Liao, Benton N. Taylor, Jeremy W. Lichstein, and Gregorio Angeles-Perez. 2017. “Nitrogen‐fixing Tree Abundance in Higher‐latitude North America Is Not Constrained by Diversity”. Ecology Letters, 20, 7, Pp. 842-51

Benton N. Taylor, Robin L. Chazdon, Benedicte Bachelot, and Duncan N.L. Menge. 2017. “Nitrogen-Fixing Trees Inhibit Growth of Regenerating Costa Rican Rainforests”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 33, Pp. 8817-22

Duncan N.L. Menge, Sarah A. Batterman, Lars O. Hedin, Wenying Liao, Stephen W. Pacala, and Benton N. Taylor. 2017. “Why Are Nitrogen‐fixing Trees Rare at Higher Compared to Lower Latitudes?”. Ecology, 98, 12, Pp. 3127-40

Katilyn V. Beidler, Benton N. Taylor, Allan E. Strand, Emily R. Cooper, Marcos Schonholz, and Seth G. Pritchard. 2015. “Changes in Root Architecture under Elevated Concentrations of CO2 and Nitrogen Reflect Alternate Soil Exploration Strategies”. New Phytologist, 205, 3, Pp. 1153-63

Saara J. DeWalt, Benton N. Taylor, and Kalan Ickes. 2015. “Density‐dependent Survival in Seedlings Differs Among Woody Life‐forms in Tropical Wet Forests of a Caribbean Island”. Biotropica, 47, 3, Pp. 310-19

Seeta A. Sistla, Alison P. Appling, Aleksandra M. Lewandowska, Benton N. Taylor, and Amelia A. Wolf. 2015. “Stoichiometric Flexibility in Response to Fertilization Along Gradients of Environmental and Organismal Nutrient Richness”. Oikos, 124, 7, Pp. 949-59