Understanding ecosystem retrogression

Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen–phosphorus interactions

(2010) Peter M. Vitousek et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Vascular plant removal effects on biological N fixation vary across a boreal forest island gradient

(2010) Michael J. Gundale et al.   ECOLOGY

Phosphorus and soil development: Does the Walker and Syers model apply to semiarid ecosystems?

(2010) Paul C. Selmants et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil phosphorus and microbial response to a long-term wildfire chronosequence in northern Sweden

(2009) Anna Lagerström et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Contributions of dust to phosphorus cycling in tropical forests of the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico

(2009) Julie C. Pett-Ridge   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Patterns of invertebrate density and taxonomic richness across gradients of area, isolation, and vegetation diversity in a lake-island system

(2009) Micael Jonsson et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Climate and soil-age constraints on nutrient uplift and retention by plants

(2009) Stephen Porder et al.   ECOLOGY

Nitrogen fixation in different biogeochemical niches along a 120 000-year chronosequence in New Zealand

(2009) Duncan N. L. Menge et al.   ECOLOGY

Mycorrhizal associations and other means of nutrition of vascular plants: understanding the global diversity of host plants by resolving conflicting information and developing reliable means of diagnosis

(2009) Mark C. Brundrett   PLANT AND SOIL

Effect of ecosystem retrogression on stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes of plants, soils and consumer organisms in boreal forest islands

(2009) Fujio Hyodo et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests

(2009) Edward Ayres et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration

(2009) Richard J. Hobbs et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Testing the assumptions of chronosequences in succession

(2008) Edward A. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant-soil feedbacks: a meta-analytical review

(2008) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Management of novel ecosystems: are novel approaches required?

(2008) Timothy R Seastedt et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Ecosystem retrogression leads to increased insect abundance and herbivory across an island chronosequence

(2008) G. M. Crutsinger et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Among- and within-species variation in plant litter decomposition in contrasting long-term chronosequences

(2008) David A. Wardle et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Substrate age and tree islands influence carbon and nitrogen dynamics across a retrogressive semiarid chronosequence

(2008) Paul C. Selmants et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Tropical Andean forest derives calcium and magnesium from Saharan dust

(2008) Jens Boy et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Context dependent effects of plant species and functional group loss on vegetation invasibility across an island area gradient

(2008) David A. Wardle et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Lucía Vivanco et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Resource partitioning for soil phosphorus: a hypothesis

(2008) Benjamin L. Turner   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Changes in the community structure and diversity of soil invertebrates across the Franz Josef Glacier chronosequence

(2008) Enrique Doblas-Miranda et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies change with soil age

(2008) H LAMBERS et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The response of plant diversity to ecosystem retrogression: evidence from contrasting long-term chronosequences

(2007) David A. Wardle et al.   OIKOS