Island size affects wood decomposition by changing decomposer distribution

Why do several small patches hold more species than few large patches?

(2020) Lenore Fahrig   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Island biogeography of soil bacteria and fungi: similar patterns, but different mechanisms

(2020) Shao-peng Li et al.   ISME Journal

A trait-based understanding of wood decomposition by fungi

(2020) Nicky Lustenhouwer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consistent trade-offs in fungal trait expression across broad spatial scales

(2019) Daniel S. Maynard et al.   Nature Microbiology

Forest fragmentation modulates effects of tree species richness and composition on ecosystem multifunctionality

(2019) Lionel R. Hertzog et al.   ECOLOGY

Termites can decompose more than half of deadwood in tropical rainforest

(2019) Hannah M. Griffiths et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Advancing Our Understanding of Woody Debris in Tropical Forests

(2019) Christian P. Giardina   ECOSYSTEMS

Greater than the sum of the parts: how the species composition in different forest strata influence ecosystem function

(2019) Ya‐Huang Luo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Environmental filtering underpins the island species—area relationship in a subtropical anthropogenic archipelago

(2019) Jinliang Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Tree species identity determines wood decomposition via microclimatic effects

(2019) Felix Gottschall et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Fungal functional ecology: bringing a trait‐based approach to plant‐associated fungi

(2019) Amy E. Zanne et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Species associations overwhelm abiotic conditions to dictate the structure and function of wood-decay fungal communities

(2018) Daniel S. Maynard et al.   ECOLOGY

High beta diversity among small islands is due to environmental heterogeneity rather than ecological drift

(2018) Jinliang Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Effects of light and topography on regeneration and coexistence of evergreen and deciduous tree species in a Chinese subtropical forest

(2018) Yi Jin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How does habitat fragmentation affect the biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relationship?

(2018) Jiajia Liu et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Patch size, isolation, and matrix effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a landscape microcosm

(2018) Brian J. Spiesman et al.   Ecosphere

Larger fragments have more late-successional species of woody plants than smaller fragments after 50 years of secondary succession

(2018) Jiajia Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Handbook for the measurement of macrofungal functional traits; a start with basidiomycete wood fungi

(2018) Samantha Katherine Dawson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Termite environmental tolerances are more linked to desiccation than temperature in modified tropical forests

(2018) J. S. Woon et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Wood decay rates of 13 temperate tree species in relation to wood properties, enzyme activities and organismic diversities

(2017) Tiemo Kahl et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Do seasonal species assemblages differ in their biogeography? Evidence from the spatial structure of bird communities on land-bridge islands

(2017) Chuanwu Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Measuring and predicting the influence of traits on the assembly processes of wood-inhabiting fungi

(2017) Nerea Abrego et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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(2017) Alexandra Kuznetsova et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Competitive network determines the direction of the diversity–function relationship

(2017) Daniel S. Maynard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Integrating Biogeography with Contemporary Niche Theory

(2017) William Godsoe et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Tree diversity drives diversity of arthropod herbivores, but successional stage mediates detritivores

(2017) Michael J. O'Brien et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Extinction debt on reservoir land-bridge islands

(2016) Isabel L. Jones et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Woodland key habitats in preserving polypore diversity in boreal forests: Effects of patch size, stand structure and microclimate

(2016) Anna-Liisa Ylisirniö et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fruit body based inventories in wood-inhabiting fungi: Should we replicate in space or time?

(2016) Nerea Abrego et al.   Fungal Ecology

Termites and flooding affect microbial communities in decomposing wood

(2016) Michael D. Ulyshen et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Microclimate and habitat heterogeneity as the major drivers of beetle diversity in dead wood

(2016) Sebastian Seibold et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Is litter decomposition influenced by forest size and invertebrate detritivores during the dry season in semiarid Chaco Serrano?

(2016) M.L. Bernaschini et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Dimensions of biodiversity in the Earth mycobiome

(2016) Kabir G. Peay et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Tales and mysteries of fungal fruiting: How morphological and physiological traits affect a pileate lifestyle

(2016) Hans Halbwachs et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Insect-mediated nitrogen dynamics in decomposing wood

(2015) MICHAEL D. ULYSHEN   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Surveying wood-inhabiting fungi: Most molecularly detected polypore species form fruit-bodies within short distances

(2015) Kadri Runnel et al.   Fungal Ecology

Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition

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

Termites amplify the effects of wood traits on decomposition rates among multiple bamboo and dicot woody species

(2015) Guofang Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

From glacial refugia to wide distribution range: demographic expansion of Loropetalum chinense (Hamamelidaceae) in Chinese subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest

(2015) Wei Gong et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

piecewiseSEM: Piecewise structural equation modelling inr for ecology, evolution, and systematics

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Area and edge effects on leaf-litter decomposition in a fragmented subtropical dry forest

(2014) M.L. Moreno et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Influences of evergreen gymnosperm and deciduous angiosperm tree species on the functioning of temperate and boreal forests

(2014) Laurent Augusto et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Wood decomposition as influenced by invertebrates

(2014) Michael D. Ulyshen   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Response of wood-inhabiting fungal community to fragmentation in a beech forest landscape

(2014) N. Abrego et al.   Fungal Ecology

Edge effects on moisture reduce wood decomposition rate in a temperate forest

(2014) Martha E. Crockatt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Disentangling the mechanisms underlying functional differences among decomposer communities

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

Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   NATURE

There's no place like home? An exploration of the mechanisms behind plant litter-decomposer affinity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2014) Amy T. Austin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

(2014) Mark A. Bradford et al.   Nature Climate Change

Combining high-throughput sequencing with fruit body surveys reveals contrasting life-history strategies in fungi

(2013) Otso Ovaskainen et al.   ISME Journal

Quantifying arthropod contributions to wood decay

(2013) Michael D. Ulyshen et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The AIC model selection method applied to path analytic models compared using a d-separation test

(2012) Bill Shipley   ECOLOGY

Richness and composition of plants and birds on land-bridge islands: effects of island attributes and differential responses of species groups

(2012) Mingjian Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Multiple mechanisms for trait effects on litter decomposition: moving beyond home-field advantage with a new hypothesis

(2012) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Leaf Trait-Environment Relationships in a Subtropical Broadleaved Forest in South-East China

(2012) Wenzel Kröber et al.   PLoS One

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(2012) James B. Grace et al.   Ecosphere

Trophic theory of island biogeography

(2011) Dominique Gravel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Determinants of plant species richness and patterns of nestedness in fragmented landscapes: evidence from land-bridge islands

(2011) Guang Hu et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Rethinking the conceptual foundations of habitat fragmentation research

(2011) Raphael K. Didham et al.   OIKOS

Forest Fragmentation and Selective Logging Have Inconsistent Effects on Multiple Animal-Mediated Ecosystem Processes in a Tropical Forest

(2011) Matthias Schleuning et al.   PLoS One

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

The trait contribution to wood decomposition rates of 15 Neotropical tree species

(2010) Koert G. van Geffen et al.   ECOLOGY

Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities

(2010) Tadashi Fukami et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A review of habitat thresholds for dead wood: a baseline for management recommendations in European forests

(2010) Jörg Müller et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Effects of resource availability and climate on the diversity of wood-decaying fungi

(2010) Claus Bässler et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Differential effects of habitat isolation and landscape composition on wasps, bees, and their enemies

(2010) Christof Schüepp et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?

(2009) WILLIAM K. CORNWELL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global meta-analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?

(2008) James T. Weedon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Tree species identity alters forest litter decomposition through long-term plant and soil interactions in Patagonia, Argentina

(2008) Lucía Vivanco et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY