Quantifying and upscaling nitrogen fixation in pristine ecosystems: Uncovering the climatic, ecological, and molecular control mechanisms

Project Information

SYMBIONIX

Grant agreement ID: 947719

DOI

10.3030/947719

Project closed

EC signature date 8 October 2020

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 451 171,00

EU contribution

€ 1 451 171,00

Coordinated by

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Global N2O emissions from our planet: Which fluxes are affected by man, and can we reduce these?

Author(s): Christensen C, Rousk K
Published in: iScience and Trends in Microbiology, Issue 27 (2), 2024, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109042

Is moss-associated nitrogen fixation controlled by the same factors across shoots, species and sites?

Author(s): Jørgen Ulrik Graudal Levinsen, Mingyue Yuan, Anders Michelsen, Kathrin Rousk
Published in: Environmental and Experimental Botany, Issue 239, 2026, Page(s) 106262, ISSN 0098-8472
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2025.106262

Light drives nitrogen fixation in tropical montane cloud forests in Costa Rica

Author(s): Danillo Oliveira Alvarenga, Lina Avila Clasen, Amanda Maria Rydgren Thomsen, Rune Fromm Andersen, Kathrin Rousk
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 940, 2024, Page(s) 173631, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173631

Extreme freeze-thaw cycles do not affect moss-associated nitrogen fixation across a temperature gradient, but affect nutrient loss from mosses

Author(s): Kathrin Rousk; Pia Steen Pedersen; Anders Priemé; Anders Michelsen
Published in: Acta Oecologia, 2021, ISSN 1146-609X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2021.103796

Do nitrogen and phosphorus additions affect nitrogen fixation associated with tropical mosses?

Author(s): Lina Avila Clasen; Aya Permin; Aline B. Horwath; Daniel B. Metcalfe; Kathrin Rousk
Published in: Plants; Volume 12; Issue 7; Pages: 1443, 2023, ISSN 2223-7747
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants12071443

Biotic and abiotic controls of nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria–moss associations

Author(s): Kathrin Rousk
Published in: New Phytologist, 2022, ISSN 1469-8137
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/nph.18264

Rapid response of moss-associated nitrogen fixation to nutrient additions in tropical montane cloud forests with different successional stages

Author(s): Lina Avila Clasen, Danillo Oliveira Alvarenga, Yinliu Wang, Rune Fromm Andersen, Kathrin Rousk
Published in: Biogeochemistry, Issue 168, 2025, ISSN 1573-515X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-024-01195-3

A research agenda for nonvascular photoautotrophs under climate change

Author(s): Philipp Porada; Maaike Y. Bader; Monica B. Berdugo; Claudia Colesie; Christopher J. Ellis; Paolo Giordani; Ulrike Herzschuh; Yunyao Ma; Samuli Launiainen; Juri Nascimbene; Imke Petersen; José Raggio Quílez; Emilio Rodríguez‐Caballero; Kathrin Rousk; Leopoldo G. Sancho; Christoph Scheidegger; Steffen Seitz; John T. Van Stan; Maik Veste; Bettina Weber; David J. Weston
Published in: New Phytologist, 2023, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.18631

Climate Change Impacts the Structure and Nitrogen‐Fixing Activities of Subarctic Feather Moss Microbiomes Across a Precipitation Gradient

Author(s): Danillo O. Alvarenga, Justin T. Wynns, Joseph Nesme, Anders Priemé, Kathrin Rousk
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 32, 2026, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70718

Temperature controls bryophyte‐associated nitrogen fixation in super‐humid temperate forests in New Zealand

Author(s): Kathrin Rousk, Meila Picard, Annika Engroff, David Glenny, Naomi Wells
Published in: Ecology, Issue 107, 2026, ISSN 0012-9658
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70343

Too Much of a Good Thing? Inorganic Nitrogen (N) Inhibits Moss-Associated N2 Fixation But Organic N Can Promote It

Author(s): Yinliu Wang, Signe Lett, Kathrin Rousk
Published in: Biogeochemistry, 2022, ISSN 1573-515X
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1022519/v1

The Feather Moss Hylocomium splendens Affects the Transcriptional Profile of a Symbiotic Cyanobacterium in Relation to Acquisition and Turnover of Key Nutrients

Author(s): Danillo Oliveira Alvarenga, Anders Priemé, Kathrin Rousk
Published in: Microbial Ecology, Issue 87, 2024, ISSN 0095-3628
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-024-02363-6

Short-term fate of nitrogen fixed by moss-cyanobacteria associations under different rainfall regimes

Author(s): Song Guo, Lina Avila Clasen, Kathrin Rousk
Published in: Basic and Applied Ecology, Issue 79, 2026, Page(s) 9-16, ISSN 1439-1791
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2024.04.009

Nitrogen deposition homogenizes moss-microbiomes and associated nitrogen fixation but with host-specific responses

Author(s): Amanda Maria Rydgren Thomsen, Danillo Oliveira Alvarenga, Kathrin Rousk
Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2026, ISSN 0099-2240
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/aem.00828-26

Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism

Author(s): Kathrin Rousk, Juan Carlos Villarreal A
Published in: Nature Plants, Issue 11, 2025, Page(s) 3-3, ISSN 2055-0278
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01876-9

Moss‐cyanobacteria associations: A model for studying symbiotic interactions and evolutionary strategies

Author(s): Kathrin Rousk
Published in: American Journal of Botany, Issue 112, 2025, ISSN 0002-9122
Publisher: Botanical Society of America, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.70086