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Mutual effects between Pinus armandii and broadleaf litter during mixed decomposition

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2019
Mixed-decomposition effects are commonly observed in natural and planted forests and affect nutrient cycling in a forest ecosystem. However, how one litter type affects the decomposition of another is still poorly understood.
Xiaoxi Zhang, Boya Wang, Zengwen Liu
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DECOMPOSITION OF DIVERSE LITTER MIXTURES IN STREAMS [PDF]

Ecology, 2007
In view of growing interest in understanding how biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning, we investigated effects of riparian plant diversity on litter decomposition in forest streams. Leaf litter from 10 deciduous tree species was collected during natural leaf fall at two locations (Massif Central in France and Carpathians in Romania) and exposed ...
Lecerf, Antoine, Risnoveanu, Geta, Popescu, Cristina, Gessner, Mark, Chauvet, Eric   +4 more
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Substrate and climate determine terrestrial litter decomposition. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Litter decomposition is a fundamental biogeochemical process for carbon flux and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, yet the global variation in decomposition rates and their covariations with climate and substrate are not fully understood.
Wu Q, Ni X, Sun X, Chen Z, Hong S, Berg B, Zheng M, Chen J, Zhu J, Ai L, Zhang Y, Wu F.   +11 more
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TeaTime4Schools: Using Data Mining Techniques to Model Litter Decomposition in Austrian Urban School Soils

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Litter decomposition plays a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle, but is difficult to measure on a global scale, especially by citizen scientists.
Taru Sandén, Anna Wawra, Helene Berthold, Julia Miloczki, Agnes Schweinzer, Agnes Schweinzer, Brigitte Gschmeidler, Heide Spiegel, Marko Debeljak, Marko Debeljak, Aneta Trajanov, Aneta Trajanov   +11 more
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Effects of fire frequency on litter decomposition as mediated by changes to litter chemistry and soil environmental conditions.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Litter quality and soil environmental conditions are well-studied drivers influencing decomposition rates, but the role played by disturbance legacy, such as fire history, in mediating these drivers is not well understood.
Cari D Ficken, Justin P Wright
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Impacts of extreme winter warming events on litter decomposition in a sub-Arctic heathland [PDF]

, 2009
Arctic climate change is expected to lead to a greater frequency of extreme winter warming events. During these events, temperatures rapidly increase to well above 0 degrees C for a number of days, which can lead to snow melt at the landscape scale, loss
Bjerke, J.W., Bokhorst, S., Callaghan, T.V., Melillo, J., Phoenix, G.K.   +4 more
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Effect of moisture on leaf litter decomposition and its contribution to soil respiration in a temperate forest [PDF]

, 2007
The degree to which increased soil respiration rates following wetting is caused by plant (autotrophic) versus microbial (heterotrophic) processes, is still largely uninvestigated. Incubation studies suggest microbial processes play a role but it remains
Andrews, Bhupinderpal-Singh, Biasi, Birch, Bol, Bond-Lamberty, Boone, Borken, Borken, Borken, Borken, Bottner, Bowling, Burton, Cisneros-Dozal, Craine, Davidson, Davidson, Davidson, Dioumaeva, Ekblad, Epron, Fierer, Gaudinski, Goulden, Hanson, Hanson, Hanson, Huston, Högberg, Irvine, Janssens, Jiang, Johnson, Joslin, Kieft, Lavigne, Lee, Lee, Luz Maria Cisneros-Dozal, McDowell, Ngao, Paul J. Hanson, Reichstein, Rey, Savage, Scott-Denton, Subke, Susan E. Trumbore, Trumbore, Waldrop, Xu, Yuste   +52 more
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Impact of an invasive alien plant on litter decomposition along a latitudinal gradient [PDF]

, 2018
Invasive alien plant effects on ecosystem functions are often difficult to predict across environmental gradients due to the context-dependent interactions between the invader and the recipient communities.
Brunet, Jörg, Cousins, Sara AO, De Frenne, Pieter, Graae, Bente J, Helsen, Kenny, Kimberley, Adam, Kolb, Annette, Lenoir, Jonathan, Ma, Shiyu, Michaelis, Jana, Plue, Jan, Smith, Stuart W, Speed, James DM, Verheyen, Kris   +13 more
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A novel method to continuously monitor litter moisture - a microcosm-based experiment [PDF]

, 2015
Litter decomposition is a key biogeochemical process that strongly affects carbon and nutrient cycling. Our understanding of the controls over decomposition in arid and semi-arid systems is currently limited by a lack of capability to measure or predict ...
Gill, Timothy, Throop, Heather L, Wang, Lixin   +2 more
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Global meta-analysis reveals differential effects of climate and litter quality on soil fauna-mediated litter decomposition across size classes

Geoderma
Litter decomposition is significantly influenced by soil fauna, litter quality, and climate. Effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition are largely dependent on the size classes of the fauna.
Kaiyu Li, Lihong Song, Qinyao Ran, Fang Yuan, Chengjia Deng, Hongyan Liu   +5 more
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