Temperature and Moisture Modulate the Contribution of Soil Fauna to Litter Decomposition via Different Pathways

Climate change and intensive land use reduce soil animal biomass via dissimilar pathways

(2020) Rui Yin et al.   eLife

Responses of nitrogen concentrations and pools to multiple environmental change drivers: A meta-analysis across terrestrial ecosystems

(2019) Kai Yue et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Soil fauna affects the optical properties in alkaline solutions extracted (humic acid-like) from forest litters during different phenological periods

(2019) Yu Tan et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Additive effects of experimental climate change and land use on faunal contribution to litter decomposition

(2019) Rui Yin et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Tree leaf and root traits mediate soil faunal contribution to litter decomposition across an elevational gradient

(2018) Saori Fujii et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Litter conversion into detritivore faeces reshuffles the quality control over C and N dynamics during decomposition

(2018) François-Xavier Joly et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effects of soil macro- and mesofauna on litter decomposition and soil organic matter stabilization

(2018) Jan Frouz   GEODERMA

Does foliar nutrient resorption regulate the coupled relationship between nitrogen and phosphorus in plant leaves in response to nitrogen deposition?

(2018) Chengming You et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Contribution of soil fauna to the degradation of recalcitrant components in Cinnamomum camphora foliar litter in different-sized gaps in Pinus massoniana plantations

(2018) Yan Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

Formation of forest gaps accelerates C, N and P release from foliar litter during 4 years of decomposition in an alpine forest

(2018) Xiangyin Ni et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Altitude and decomposition stage rather than litter origin structure soil microarthropod communities in tropical montane rainforests

(2018) Franca Marian et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Can changes in litter quality drive soil fauna structure and functions?

(2017) Marie Sauvadet et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Water, Rather than Temperature, Dominantly Impacts How Soil Fauna Affect Dissolved Carbon and Nitrogen Release from Fresh Litter during Early Litter Decomposition

(2016) Shu Liao et al.   Forests

Lignin Degradation in Foliar Litter of Two Shrub Species from the Gap Center to the Closed Canopy in an Alpine Fir Forest

(2015) Wei He et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

The importance of litter traits and decomposers for litter decomposition: a comparison of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems within and across biomes

(2015) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition

(2015) Mark A. Bradford et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant species control and soil faunal involvement in the processes of above- and below-ground litter decomposition

(2015) Saori Fujii et al.   OIKOS

The effects of forest gaps on cellulose degradation in the foliar litter of two shrub species in an alpine fir forest

(2015) Wei He et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Impact of Plant Invasion and Increasing Floods on Total Soil Phosphorus and its Fractions in the Minjiang River Estuarine Wetlands, China

(2015) Wei-Qi Wang et al.   WETLANDS

Disentangling the mechanisms underlying functional differences among decomposer communities

(2014) Ashley D. Keiser et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

(2014) I. Tanya Handa et al.   NATURE

The role of litter-feeding macroarthropods in decomposition processes: A reappraisal of common views

(2014) J.F. David   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Leaf litter decomposition rates increase with rising mean annual temperature in Hawaiian tropical montane wet forests

(2014) Lori D. Bothwell et al.   PeerJ

Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes

(2013) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Reduction in snow depth negatively affects decomposers but impact on decomposition rates is substrate dependent

(2013) Stef Bokhorst et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Home-Field Advantage: A matter of interaction between litter biochemistry and decomposer biota

(2013) Gabriel Perez et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Highly consistent effects of plant litter identity and functional traits on decomposition across a latitudinal gradient

(2012) Marika Makkonen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Succession of collembolan communities during decomposition of leaf and root litter: Effects of litter type and position

(2012) Saori Fujii et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

All size classes of soil fauna and litter quality control the acceleration of litter decay in its home environment

(2011) Alexandru Milcu et al.   OIKOS

The sensitivity of tropical leaf litter decomposition to temperature: results from a large-scale leaf translocation experiment along an elevation gradient in Peruvian forests

(2010) N. Salinas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf traits and decomposition in tropical rainforests: revisiting some commonly held views and towards a new hypothesis

(2010) Stephan Hättenschwiler et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Macro-invertebrates accelerate litter decomposition and nutrient release in a Hawaiian rainforest

(2010) Wallace M. Meyer et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The role of microarthropods in terrestrial decomposition: a meta-analysis of 40 years of litterbag studies

(2009) Christian Kampichler et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan-tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient

(2009) Jennifer S. Powers et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Soil biota accelerate decomposition in high-elevation forests by specializing in the breakdown of litter produced by the plant species above them

(2009) Edward Ayres et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant litter quality influences the contribution of soil fauna to litter decomposition in humid tropical forests, southwestern China

(2009) Xiaodong Yang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effects of soil microarthropods on plant litter decomposition across an elevation gradient in the Wuyi Mountains

(2009) Shaojun Wang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Litter quality is in the eye of the beholder: initial decomposition rates as a function of inoculum characteristics

(2008) Michael S. Strickland et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Rates of litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems: global patterns and controlling factors

(2008) Deqiang Zhang et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology