Megan K. Nasto

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics(20), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics(4), Forest ecology and management(4), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(3), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions(3)

Publications27 total

Examining climate benefits from rangeland and pasture management practices in the United States: opportunities, tradeoffs, and information gaps
npj Sustainable Agriculture·2025Open Access
The effect of plant invasion on soil microbial carbon‐use efficiency in semi‐arid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain West
Journal of Ecology·2021· 17 cited
Litter inputs drive patterns of soil nitrogen heterogeneity in a diverse tropical forest: Results from a litter manipulation experiment
Soil Biology and Biochemistry·2021· 25 cited
Physical mechanisms for soil moisture effects on microbial carbon-use efficiency in a sandy loam soil in the western United States
Soil Biology and Biochemistry·2020· 70 cited
Leaf litter inputs reinforce islands of nitrogen fertility in a lowland tropical forest
Biogeochemistry·2020· 29 cited
Litterfall inputs drive patterns of soil nitrogen heterogeneity in a diverse tropical forest
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2019
Soil Moisture Regulates Microbial Carbon-use Efficiency in Soils of Different Textures
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2019
Nutrient acquisition strategies augment growth in tropical N <sub>2</sub> ‐fixing trees in nutrient‐poor soil and under elevated <scp>CO</scp> <sub>2</sub>
Ecology·2019· 40 cited
Biogeochemical recuperation of lowland tropical forest during succession
Ecology·2019· 53 cited
Overcoming Nutrient Limitation: Will Phosphorus Availability Constrain Global Plant Production Under Elevated CO 2 ?
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2018
Remotely‐Sensed Canopy Nitrogen Correlates with Nitrous Oxide Emissions in a Lowland Tropical Rainforest
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America·2018· 1 citedOpen Access
A New Framework for Evaluating Estimates of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Forests
The American Naturalist·2018· 17 cited
Nitrogen fixation and foliar nitrogen do not predict phosphorus acquisition strategies in tropical trees
Journal of Ecology·2018· 25 citedOpen Access
Remotely sensed canopy nitrogen correlates with nitrous oxide emissions in a lowland tropical rainforest
Ecology·2018· 23 cited
Nutrient acquisition, soil phosphorus partitioning and competition among trees in a lowland tropical rain forest
New Phytologist·2017· 95 citedOpen Access
Climate, Topography, and Canopy Chemistry Exert Hierarchical Control Over Soil N Cycling in a Neotropical Lowland Forest
Ecosystems·2017· 44 cited
NUTRIENT ACQUISITION STRATEGIES IN TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS: NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS INTERACTIONS THROUGH PLANTMICROBIAL MUTUALISMS
The Mathematics Enthusiast·2017
Canopy tree species drive local heterogeneity in soil nitrogen availability in a lowland tropical forest
AGUFM·2016
Environmental controls on canopy foliar nitrogen distributions in a Neotropical lowland forest
Ecological Applications·2016· 24 cited
Trends in nitrogen and phosphorus cycling are consistent and constrained during tropical secondary forest succession: is secondary forest young primary forest from a nutrient perspective?
2015 AGU Fall Meeting·2015
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Frequent Co-authors

Cory C. Cleveland(18), Benjamin W. Sullivan(12), Alan R. Townsend(12), Brooke B. Osborne(10), Stephen Porder(10), Gregory P. Asner(9), Fiona M. Soper(8), Christopher S. Balzotti(7), Silvia Álvarez-Clare(5), Ylva Lekberg(4), Philip G. Taylor(4), David Bru(3), Laurent Philippot(3), Robin L. Chazdon(2), Kirsten Butcher(2), Jeanette M. Norton(2), John M. Stark(2), Eric A. Davidson(2), Megan B. Machmuller(2), Rebecca J. Cole(2)