Root quality and decomposition environment, but not tree species richness, drive root decomposition in tropical forests

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

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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

Isolating the effects of precipitation, soil conditions, and litter quality on leaf litter decomposition in lowland tropical forests

(2015) Sarah E. Dale et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant species richness leaves a legacy of enhanced root litter-induced decomposition in soil

(2015) Wen-Feng Cong et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant species effects on nutrient cycling: revisiting litter feedbacks

(2015) Sarah E. Hobbie   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Plant traits and taxonomy drive host associations in tropical phyllosphere fungal communities

(2014) Steven W. Kembel et al.   Botany

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

(2014) I. Tanya Handa et al.   NATURE

Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

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

Tree species influence on microbial communities in litter and soil: Current knowledge and research needs

(2013) Cindy E. Prescott et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Succession of Ephemeral Secondary Forests and Their Limited Role for the Conservation of Floristic Diversity in a Human-Modified Tropical Landscape

(2013) Michiel van Breugel et al.   PLoS One

Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

(2013) R. Condit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2012) Marika Makkonen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Connecting litter quality, microbial community and nitrogen transfer mechanisms in decomposing litter mixtures

(2012) Dennis Lummer et al.   OIKOS

Effects of canopy tree species on belowground biogeochemistry in a lowland wet tropical forest

(2012) Adrienne B. Keller et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Prediction of in situ root decomposition rates in an interspecific context from chemical and morphological traits

(2011) Maurice Aulen et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plant traits and decomposition: are the relationships for roots comparable to those for leaves?

(2011) Marine Birouste et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

(2011) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of tropical forest vegetation

(2011) Yadvinder Malhi   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Foliar herbivory and leaf traits of five native tree species in a young plantation of Central Panama

(2011) Gillian S. Paul et al.   NEW FORESTS

Litter composition rather than plant presence affects decomposition of tropical litter mixtures

(2011) Sylvain Coq et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

smatr 3- an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines

(2011) David I. Warton et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Stoichiometric controls on carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus dynamics in decomposing litter

(2010) Stefano Manzoni et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Decomposition of the finest root branching orders: linking belowground dynamics to fine-root function and structure

(2010) Marc Goebel et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

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

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

(2010) E. Carol Adair et al.   ECOLOGY

Recovery of saturated hydraulic conductivity under secondary succession on former pasture in the humid tropics

(2010) Sibylle K. Hassler et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil

(2010) Johannes Rousk et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2010) Stephan Hättenschwiler et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Inconsistent impacts of decomposer diversity on the stability of aboveground and belowground ecosystem functions

(2010) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Diversity meets decomposition

(2010) Mark O. Gessner et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Global patterns in belowground communities

(2009) Noah Fierer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

(2009) Lourens Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fine root decomposition rates do not mirror those of leaf litter among temperate tree species

(2009) Sarah E. Hobbie et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

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

Controls on long-term root and leaf litter decomposition in neotropical forests

(2008) DANIELA F. CUSACK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Partitioning the effects of biodiversity and environmental heterogeneity for productivity and mortality in a tropical tree plantation

(2008) Chrystal Healy et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Anatomical traits associated with absorption and mycorrhizal colonization are linked to root branch order in twenty-three Chinese temperate tree species

(2008) Dali Guo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The influence of soil properties on the structure of bacterial and fungal communities across land-use types

(2008) Christian L. Lauber et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Root architecture and allocation patterns of eight native tropical species with different successional status used in open-grown mixed plantations in Panama

(2008) Lluis Coll et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION