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Nitrogen Fixation
In boreal forests, some species of moss play an important role in providing nitrogen for the ecosystem due to their relationship with nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria colonizes moss and receives shelter in return for fixed nitrogen. Moss releases the fixed nitrogen, along with other nutrients, into the soil "upon disturbances like drying-rewetting and fire events."[1]
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- ^ Rousk, Kathrin; Jones, Davey L.; DeLuca, Thomas H. (2013-01-01). "Moss-cyanobacteria associations as biogenic sources of nitrogen in boreal forest ecosystems". Frontiers in Microbiology. 4. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2013.00150. ISSN 1664-302X. PMC 3683619. PMID 23785359.
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