Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition

Disturbance Decouples Biogeochemical Cycles Across Forests of the Southeastern US

(2015) Ashley D. Keiser et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg

(2015) Jeffrey T. Leek et al.   NATURE

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

Long-term litter decomposition controlled by manganese redox cycling

(2015) Marco Keiluweit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Beyond Bar and Line Graphs: Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm

(2015) Tracey L. Weissgerber et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

(2014) I. Tanya Handa et al.   NATURE

Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition

(2014) Mark A. Bradford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

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

Untangling the fungal niche: the trait-based approach

(2014) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

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

Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

(2013) Vivek K. Arora et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Responses of soil heterotrophic respiration to moisture availability: An exploration of processes and models

(2013) Fernando E. Moyano et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

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

Rate my data: quantifying the value of ecological data for the development of models of the terrestrial carbon cycle

(2012) Trevor F. Keenan et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Microbial abundance and composition influence litter decomposition response to environmental change

(2012) Steven D. Allison et al.   ECOLOGY

A trait-based approach for modelling microbial litter decomposition

(2012) S. D. Allison   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Analytical models of soil and litter decomposition: Solutions for mass loss and time-dependent decay rates

(2012) Stefano Manzoni 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

Ecological forecasting and data assimilation in a data-rich era

(2011) Yiqi Luo et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Increases in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long-term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO2

(2011) John E. Drake et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Litter decomposition: what controls it and how can we alter it to sequester more carbon in forest soils?

(2010) Cindy E. Prescott   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

How to avoid a perfunctory sensitivity analysis

(2010) Andrea Saltelli et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Individuals and the Variation Needed for High Species Diversity in Forest Trees

(2010) J. S. Clark   SCIENCE

Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Leaf litter decomposition—Estimates of global variability based on Yasso07 model

(2009) M. Tuomi et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

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

Microbial communities and their relevance for ecosystem models: Decomposition as a case study

(2009) Krista L. McGuire 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

Litter quality is in the eye of the beholder: initial decomposition rates as a function of inoculum characteristics

(2008) Michael S. Strickland et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Rates of litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems: global patterns and controlling factors

(2008) Deqiang Zhang et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations

(2007) Andrew Gelman   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE