Regional contingencies in the relationship between aboveground biomass and litter in the world’s grasslands [PDF]
, 2013 Based on regional-scale studies, aboveground production and litter decomposition are thought to positively covary, because they are driven by shared biotic and climatic factors.
MacDougall, A.S. +123 more
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Effects of experimental fires on litter decomposition in a seasonally dry Amazonian forest. [PDF]
, 2009 Litter decomposition is a fundamental process for nutrient cycling but we have a limited understanding of this process in disturbed tropical forests. We studied litter decomposition over a 10-mo period in a seasonally dry Amazon forest in Mato Grosso ...
Krusche, Alex V. +5 more
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Combined effects of water temperature, grazing snails and terrestrial herbivores on leaf decomposition in urban streams [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 The decomposition of organic matter in freshwaters, such as leaf litter, can affect global nutrient (e.g., carbon) cycling. This process can be influenced by fast urbanization through increased water temperature, reduced aquatic diversity and changed ...
Hongyong Xiang +3 more
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023 Cellulose and lignin are the principal constituents of plant litter, and their degradation plays an important role in the maintaining the soil carbon balance in terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, our knowledge of the responses of litter mass loss and cellulose
Bo Chen +19 more
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Direct and legacy effects of plant-traits control litter decomposition in a deciduous oak forest in Mexico [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Litter decomposition is a key process in the functioning of forest ecosystems, because it strongly controls nutrient recycling and soil fertility maintenance.
Bruno Chávez-Vergara +4 more
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Soil Organisms, 2021 Soil respiration plays a central role in global carbon dynamics, and small changes in the magnitude of soil respiration could have large impacts on atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
Mengyun Liu +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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Supplying Hydrogen Water to Ducks Did Not Influence Ammonia Content and Duck Litter Quality [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science, 2022 Drinking hydrogen-rich water shows a remarkable antioxidant effect in preventive and therapeutic applications. However, there is no previous report and information on ammonia (NH3) production and duck litter quality when hydrogen water was supplied to ...
IH Choi, TH Chung
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Litter quality and environmental controls of home‐field advantage effects on litter decomposition [PDF]
Oikos, 2014 The ‘home‐field advantage (HFA) hypothesis’ predicts that plant litter is decomposed faster than expected in the vicinity of the plant where it originates from (i.e. its ‘home’) relative to some other location (i.e. ‘away’) because of the presence of specialized decomposers.
Veen, G.F. (Ciska) +3 more
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Grazing increases litter decomposition rate but decreases nitrogen release rate in an alpine meadow [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2018 Litter decomposition and N release are the key processes that strongly determine the nutrient cycling at the soil–plant interface; however, how these processes are affected by grazing or grazing exclusion in the alpine grassland ecosystems on the ...
Y. Sun +5 more
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