Seedling leaves allocate lower fractions of nitrogen to photosynthetic apparatus in nitrogen fixing trees than in non-nitrogen fixing trees in subtropical China

• Jingchao Tang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Key Laboratory on Forest Ecology and Environmental Sciences of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao Technological University, Qingdao, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4233-3228

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• Baodi Sun,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao Technological University, Qingdao, China

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• Ruimei Cheng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Key Laboratory on Forest Ecology and Environmental Sciences of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China

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• Zuomin Shi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shizm@caf.ac.cn

  Affiliations Key Laboratory on Forest Ecology and Environmental Sciences of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China, Tree and Timber Institute, National Research Council of Italy Sesto, Fiorentino, Italy

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• Da Luo,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Key Laboratory on Forest Ecology and Environmental Sciences of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, Research Institute of Economic Forestry, Xinjiang Academy of Forestry Science, Urumqi, China

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• Shirong Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory on Forest Ecology and Environmental Sciences of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

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• Mauro Centritto

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tree and Timber Institute, National Research Council of Italy Sesto, Fiorentino, Italy

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