A test of the hierarchical model of litter decomposition

Historical precipitation predictably alters the shape and magnitude of microbial functional response to soil moisture

(2016) Colin Averill et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biomass or growth? How to measure soil food webs to understand structure and function

(2016) Johannes Rousk   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Climate history shapes contemporary leaf litter decomposition

(2015) Michael S. Strickland et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Microbial stoichiometry overrides biomass as a regulator of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling

(2015) Robert W. Buchkowski et al.   ECOLOGY

Disturbance Decouples Biogeochemical Cycles Across Forests of the Southeastern US

(2015) Ashley D. Keiser et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition

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

Scale-dependent variation in nitrogen cycling and soil fungal communities along gradients of forest composition and age in regenerating tropical dry forests

(2015) Bonnie G. Waring et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Biotic interactions mediate soil microbial feedbacks to climate change

(2015) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental stress response limits microbial necromass contributions to soil organic carbon

(2015) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

(2014) I. Tanya Handa et al.   NATURE

Spatial Variation in Soil Properties among North American Ecosystems and Guidelines for Sampling Designs

(2014) Henry Loescher et al.   PLoS One

Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

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

Weaker soil carbon–climate feedbacks resulting from microbial and abiotic interactions

(2014) Jinyun Tang et al.   Nature Climate Change

Microbe-driven turnover offsets mineral-mediated storage of soil carbon under elevated CO2

(2014) Benjamin N. Sulman et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes

(2013) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate change alters ecological strategies of soil bacteria

(2013) Sarah E. Evans et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

(2013) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Climate Change

The temperature response of soil microbial efficiency and its feedback to climate

(2013) Serita D. Frey et al.   Nature Climate Change

Native predators reduce harvest of reindeer by Sámi pastoralists

(2012) N. Thompson Hobbs et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Microbial abundance and composition influence litter decomposition response to environmental change

(2012) Steven D. Allison et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Marika Makkonen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evaluating litter decomposition in earth system models with long-term litterbag experiments: an example using the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4)

(2012) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

(2012) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microclimate within litter bags of different mesh size: Implications for the ‘arthropod effect’ on litter decomposition

(2012) Stef Bokhorst 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

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

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

Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

(2011) Richard T. Conant et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology

(2010) Steven D. Allison et al.   Nature Geoscience

Cross-biome transplants of plant litter show decomposition models extend to a broader climatic range but lose predictability at the decadal time scale

(2009) W. S. CURRIE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Commentary: Individual, ecological and multilevel fallacies

(2009) J M. Oakes   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan-tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient

(2009) Jennifer S. Powers et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Does adding microbial mechanisms of decomposition improve soil organic matter models? A comparison of four models using data from a pulsed rewetting experiment

(2009) Corey R. Lawrence et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

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

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

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

Long-term patterns of mass loss during the decomposition of leaf and fine root litter: an intersite comparison

(2008) MARK E. HARMON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items

(2008) R.H. Baayen et al.   JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE

Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations

(2007) Andrew Gelman   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE