Climate change affects detritus decomposition rates by modifying arthropod performance and species interactions

Ignoring temperature variation leads to underestimation of the temperature sensitivity of plant litter decomposition

(2020) Nathan J. Tomczyk et al.   Ecosphere

Warming effects on dung beetle ecosystem services: Brood production and dung burial by a tunnelling dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), is reduced by experimental warming

(2020) Jean M Holley et al.   Austral Entomology

Experimental warming alters the relative survival and emigration of two dung beetle species from an Australian dung pat community

(2019) Jean M. Holley et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Impacts of rainfall extremes predicted by climate‐change models on major trophic groups in the leaf litter arthropod community

(2019) David H. Wise et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Field exclusion of large soil predators impacts lower trophic levels and decreases leaf‐litter decomposition in dry forests

(2019) Nereida Melguizo‐Ruiz et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry

(2019) T. W. Crowther et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of abiotic environmental factors and land use on the diversity of carrion-visiting silphid beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae): A large scale carrion study

(2018) Christian von Hoermann et al.   PLoS One

The role of tolerance variation in vulnerability forecasting of insects

(2018) Sarah E Diamond et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Macro-detritivore identity and biomass along with moisture availability control forest leaf litter breakdown in a field experiment

(2018) Pallieter De Smedt et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Necrobiome framework for bridging decomposition ecology of autotrophically and heterotrophically derived organic matter

(2018) M. Eric Benbow et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Warming enhances sedimentation and decomposition of organic carbon in shallow macrophyte-dominated systems with zero net effect on carbon burial

(2018) Mandy Velthuis et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ocean warming, but not acidification, accelerates seagrass decomposition under near-future climate scenarios

(2018) BP Kelaher et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Warming reverses top-down effects of predators on belowground ecosystem function in Arctic tundra

(2018) Amanda M. Koltz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental warming disrupts reproduction and dung burial by a ball-rolling dung beetle

(2018) Jean M. Holley et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Isopod physiological and behavioral responses to drier conditions: An experiment with four species in the context of global warming

(2018) J. Leclercq-Dransart et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Plant litter mixture partly mitigates the negative effects of extended drought on soil biota and litter decomposition in a Mediterranean oak forest

(2017) Mathieu Santonja et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Trophic interactions determine the effects of drought on an aquatic ecosystem

(2016) Sarah L. Amundrud et al.   ECOLOGY

Density constrains cascading consequences of warming and nitrogen from invertebrate growth to litter decomposition

(2016) Jes Hines et al.   ECOLOGY

Antagonistic effects of biological invasion and environmental warming on detritus processing in freshwater ecosystems

(2016) Daniel Kenna et al.   OECOLOGIA

Dung beetle species interactions and multifunctionality are affected by an experimentally warmed climate

(2016) Eleanor M. Slade et al.   OIKOS

Complex responses of insect phenology to climate change

(2016) Jessica RK Forrest   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Ant-mediated ecosystem functions on a warmer planet: effects on soil movement, decomposition and nutrient cycling

(2015) Israel Del Toro et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition

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

Joint effects of climate warming and exotic litter (Eucalyptus globulus Labill.) on stream detritivore fitness and litter breakdown

(2014) Francisco Correa-Araneda et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

Effects of increased water temperature on leaf litter quality and detritivore performance: a whole-reach manipulative experiment

(2014) Esther Mas-Martí et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Decomposition rate of carrion is dependent on composition not abundance of the assemblages of insect scavengers

(2014) Nina Farwig et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

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

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

Cascading effects of predator-detritivore interactions depend on environmental context in a Tibetan alpine meadow

(2013) Xinwei Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Do climate and soil influence phenotypic variability in leaf litter, microbial decomposition and shredder consumption?

(2013) M. A. S. Graça et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of environmental warming and drought on size-structured soil food webs

(2013) Birgit Lang et al.   OIKOS

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

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

Ants accelerate litter decomposition in a Costa Rican lowland tropical rain forest

(2012) Terrence P. McGlynn et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

The role of carrion in maintaining biodiversity and ecological processes in terrestrial ecosystems

(2012) Philip S. Barton et al.   OECOLOGIA

Climate change effects on macrofaunal litter decomposition: the interplay of temperature, body masses and stoichiometry

(2012) D. Ott et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Warming, eutrophication, and predator loss amplify subsidies between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

(2011) Hamish S. Greig et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Detritivores feeding on poor quality food are more sensitive to increased temperatures

(2011) Verónica Díaz Villanueva et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

A brown-world cascade in the dung decomposer food web of an alpine meadow: effects of predator interactions and warming

(2010) Xinwei Wu et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Drought impact on stream detritivores: experimental effects on leaf litter breakdown and life cycles

(2010) Karolina Leberfinger et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA