Interacting effects of yak dung deposition and litter quality on litter mass loss and nitrogen dynamics in Tibetan alpine grassland

Grazing and fertilization influence plant species richness via direct and indirect pathways in an alpine meadow of the eastern Tibetan Plateau

(2016) J. Li et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Carbon and nitrogen additions induce distinct priming effects along an organic-matter decay continuum

(2016) Na Qiao et al.   Scientific Reports

Low-to-moderate nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations accelerate microbially driven litter breakdown rates

(2015) John S. Kominoski et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Thirty-year variations of above-ground net primary production and precipitation-use efficiency of an alpine meadow in the north-eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2015) H. Li et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Additive effects of dung amendment and plant species identity on soil processes and soil inorganic nitrogen in grass monocultures

(2015) Juliette M. G. Bloor   PLANT AND SOIL

Climate change may reduce litter decomposition while enhancing the contribution of photodegradation in dry perennial Mediterranean grasslands

(2015) María Almagro et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant species effects on nutrient cycling: revisiting litter feedbacks

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

Leaf litter mixtures and neighbour effects: Low-nitrogen and high-lignin species increase decomposition rate of high-nitrogen and low-lignin neighbours

(2014) A. Cuchietti et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Deposition and decomposition of cattle dung and its impact on soil properties and plant growth in a cool-temperate pasture

(2014) Shinpei Yoshitake et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

(2014) I. Tanya Handa et al.   NATURE

Interacting Microbe and Litter Quality Controls on Litter Decomposition: A Modeling Analysis

(2014) Daryl Moorhead et al.   PLoS One

Decomposition patterns for foliar litter – A theory for influencing factors

(2014) Björn Berg   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The initial lignin:nitrogen ratio of litter from above and below ground sources strongly and negatively influenced decay rates of slowly decomposing litter carbon pools

(2014) Christine Walela et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The impact of excretal returns from yak and Tibetan sheep dung on nitrous oxide emissions in an alpine steppe on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Yanjiang Cai et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Linking litter decomposition of above- and below-ground organs to plant-soil feedbacks worldwide

(2013) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of differential grazing on decomposition rate and nitrogen availability in a productive mountain grassland

(2013) María Victoria Vaieretti et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Priming of Soil Carbon Decomposition in Two Inner Mongolia Grassland Soils following Sheep Dung Addition: A Study Using 13C Natural Abundance Approach

(2013) Xiuzhi Ma et al.   PLoS One

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

(2012) Marika Makkonen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The origin of litter chemical complexity during decomposition

(2012) Kyle Wickings et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The effect of grazing management on plant species richness on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2011) J. Cao et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Changes in soil biochemical properties associated with Ligularia virgaurea spreading in grazed alpine meadows

(2011) Xiao Ming Shi et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Does decomposition of standard materials differ among grassland patches maintained by livestock?

(2010) MARÍA VICTORIA VAIERETTI et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Stefano Manzoni et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Dual role of lignin in plant litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems

(2010) A. T. Austin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Organic resource quality influences short-term aggregate dynamics and soil organic carbon and nitrogen accumulation

(2010) P. Chivenge et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effect of warming and grazing on litter mass loss and temperature sensitivity of litter and dung mass loss on the Tibetan plateau

(2009) CAIYUN LUO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nitrogen dynamics of cattle dung and urine patches on intensively managed boreal pasture

(2009) K. SAARIJÄRVI et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

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

Nitrogen and Phosphorus Release from Mixed Litter Layers is Lower than Predicted from Single Species Decay

(2008) Becky A. Ball et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Nitrous oxide emissions and dynamics of soil nitrogen under15N-labeled cow urine and dung patches on a sandy grassland soil

(2008) Christine Wachendorf et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Dung pads increase pasture production, soil nutrients and microbial biomass carbon in grazed dairy systems

(2008) Sharon Rose Aarons et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Conservation of nitrogen increases with precipitation across a major grassland gradient in the Central Great Plains of North America

(2008) Rebecca L. McCulley et al.   OECOLOGIA