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Warming effects on greenhouse gas fluxes in peatlands are modulated by vegetation composition

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Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

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Plant diversity effects on soil food webs are stronger than those of elevated CO2 and N deposition in a long-term grassland experiment

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Fire Accelerates Assimilation and Transfer of Photosynthetic Carbon from Plants to Soil Microbes in a Northern Peatland

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Moss species effects on peatland carbon cycling after fire

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Above- and belowground linkages inSphagnumpeatland: climate warming affects plant-microbial interactions

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

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A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

(2012) David U. Hooper et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

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Seasonal climate manipulations have only minor effects on litter decomposition rates and N dynamics but strong effects on litter P dynamics of sub-arctic bog species

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Biogeochemical plant–soil microbe feedback in response to climate warming in peatlands

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Organic nutrient uptake by mycorrhizal fungi enhances ecosystem carbon storage: a model-based assessment

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Summer warming accelerates sub-arctic peatland nitrogen cycling without changing enzyme pools or microbial community structure

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Using diet to assess the sensitivity of northern and upland birds to climate change

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Soil ecosystem functioning under climate change: plant species and community effects

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Nitrogen deposition threatens species richness of grasslands across Europe

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Widespread coupling between the rate and temperature sensitivity of organic matter decay

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Litter evenness influences short-term peatland decomposition processes

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Context dependency of litter-mixing effects on decomposition and nutrient release across a long-term chronosequence

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Soil biology and warming play a key role in the release of ‘old C’ from organic soils

(2010) Maria Jesus Iglesias Briones et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil invertebrates control peatland C fluxes in response to warming

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Soil biota accelerate decomposition in high-elevation forests by specializing in the breakdown of litter produced by the plant species above them

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Vegetation Affects the Relative Abundances of Dominant Soil Bacterial Taxa and Soil Respiration Rates in an Upland Grassland Soil

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Carbon respiration from subsurface peat accelerated by climate warming in the subarctic

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Peatland Response to Global Change

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

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Contribution of plant photosynthate to soil respiration and dissolved organic carbon in a naturally recolonising cutover peatland

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