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Climate and litter traits affect the response of litter decomposition to soil fauna
BMC Research Notes, 2023 Objectives Soil fauna plays a crucial role in contributing to litter breakdown, accelerating the decomposition rate and enhancing the biogeochemical cycle in terrestrial ecosystems.
Dangjun Wang +5 more
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Litter Mixing Alters Microbial Decomposer Community to Accelerate Tomato Root Litter Decomposition
Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 Mixing plant litters of multiple species can alter litter decomposition, a key driver of carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Changes in microbial decomposer communities is proposed as one of the mechanisms explaining this litter ...
Xue Jin +4 more
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Geoderma, 2023 Increases in stand age can significantly change litter and soil microenvironmental properties of plantations. However, how these factors change and by which pathways they act together to affect litter decomposition are not well understood. In this study,
Xiaoxi Zhang +5 more
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Differences in leaf and root litter decomposition in tropical montane rainforests are mediated by soil microorganisms not by decomposer microarthropods [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background Plant litter decomposition is a key process in carbon and nutrient cycling. Among the factors determining litter decomposition rates, the role of soil biota in the decomposition of different plant litter types and its modification by ...
Laura M. Sánchez-Galindo +5 more
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Litter decomposition by soil fauna: effect of land use in agroecosystems
Heliyon, 2021 Soil fauna plays a key role in organic matter decomposition. Litter decomposition depends on the relationships of soil fauna and microorganisms as well as climate and litter quality. The decomposer community is sensitive to land use.
M.T. Cassani +4 more
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Mycorrhiza and Litter Decomposition [PDF]
Nature, 1971 FORMATION of the mor type of forest litter, characterized by slow decomposition, has been attributed to a number of factors1–3, but the effect of mycorrhizal fungi, though postulated4,5, has not been studied experimentally. We have conducted an experiment in which root activity and thus mycorrhizal activity were reduced in small areas of an unthinned ...
R L, Gadgil, P D, Gadgil
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Direct and indirect effects of UV-B exposure on litter decomposition: a meta-analysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) exposure in the course of litter decomposition may have a direct effect on decomposition rates via changing states of photodegradation or decomposer constitution in litter while UV-B exposure during growth periods may alter chemical ...
Xinzhang Song +4 more
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Geoderma, 2023 Peat accumulation is the result of an imbalance between the biomass production and the reduced decomposition of organic matter, which has allowed peatlands to accumulate high levels of carbon over time.
Raphael Müller +4 more
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Effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition in Chinese forests: a meta-analysis [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Litter quality and climate have been presumed to be the dominant factors regulating litter decomposition rates on broad spatial scales. However, the role of soil fauna on litter decomposition is poorly understood, despite the fact that it could strongly ...
Peng Zan, Zijun Mao, Tao Sun
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Effects of litter manipulation on litter decomposition in a successional gradients of tropical forests in southern China. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Global changes such as increasing CO2, rising temperature, and land-use change are likely to drive shifts in litter inputs to forest floors, but the effects of such changes on litter decomposition remain largely unknown.
Hao Chen +8 more
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