Habitat Complexity Enhances Comminution and Decomposition Processes in Urban Ecosystems

Habitat complexity influences fine scale hydrological processes and the incidence of stormwater runoff in managed urban ecosystems

(2015) Alessandro Ossola et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Urban habitat complexity affects species richness but not environmental filtering of morphologically-diverse ants

(2015) Alessandro Ossola et al.   PeerJ

The Effects of Fire Severity on Macroinvertebrate Detritivores and Leaf Litter Decomposition

(2015) Sebastian Buckingham et al.   PLoS One

Land-use legacies regulate decomposition dynamics following bioenergy crop conversion

(2014) Cynthia M. Kallenbach et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Effects of Litter Manipulation on Litter Decomposition in a Successional Gradients of Tropical Forests in Southern China

(2014) Hao Chen et al.   PLoS One

Plant Diversity Impacts Decomposition and Herbivory via Changes in Aboveground Arthropods

(2014) Anne Ebeling et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Disentangling community functional components in a litter-macrodetritivore model system reveals the predominance of the mass ratio hypothesis

(2014) Karolína Bílá et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Legacies of agriculture and urbanization in labile and stable organic carbon and nitrogen in Sonoran Desert soils

(2014) David Bruce Lewis et al.   Ecosphere

Macrofauna assemblage composition and soil moisture interact to affect soil ecosystem functions

(2013) E.J. Collison et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Strong legacy of agricultural land use on soils and understory plant communities in longleaf pine woodlands

(2013) Lars A. Brudvig et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Macroarthropod-microorganism interactions during the decomposition of Mediterranean shrub litter at different moisture levels

(2013) M. Coulis et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Litter manipulation and the soil arthropod community in a lowland tropical rainforest

(2013) O.S. Ashford et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Interacting effects of leaf litter species and macrofauna on decomposition in different litter environments

(2012) Eleanor M. Slade et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Lawn soil carbon storage in abandoned residential properties: An examination of ecosystem structure and function following partial human-natural decoupling

(2012) Christopher M. Gough et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Experimental evidence for the interacting effects of forest edge, moisture and soil macrofauna on leaf litter decomposition

(2012) Terhi Riutta et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effects of vegetation removal on soil properties and decomposer organisms

(2011) Jie Zhao et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Single-pool exponential decomposition models: potential pitfalls in their use in ecological studies

(2010) E. Carol Adair et al.   ECOLOGY

Positive relationship between herbaceous layer diversity and the performance of soil biota in a temperate forest

(2010) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Arthropod Abundance and Diversity in a Lowland Tropical Forest Floor in Panama: The Role of Habitat Space vs. Nutrient Concentrations

(2009) Emma J. Sayer et al.   BIOTROPICA

Livestock grazing exclusion and microhabitat variation affect invertebrates and litter decomposition rates in woodland remnants

(2009) Elizabeth A. Lindsay et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Global climate change and litter decomposition: more frequent fire slows decomposition and increases the functional importance of invertebrates

(2009) KARL E. C. BRENNAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecohydrological controls of soil evaporation in deciduous drylands: How the hierarchical effects of litter, patch and vegetation mosaic cover interact with phenology and season

(2009) Juan Camilo Villegas et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution

(2009) Benjamin M. Bolker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecosystem Properties of Urban Land Covers at the Aboveground–Belowground Interface

(2008) Loren B. Byrne et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Altered resources, disturbance, and heterogeneity: A framework for comparing urban and non-urban soils

(2008) S. T. A. Pickett et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS