Litter quality and environmental controls of home-field advantage effects on litter decomposition

Plant-soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

(2013) Wim H. van der Putten et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Home-field advantage of litter decomposition and nitrogen release in forest ecosystems

(2012) Qingkui Wang et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

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

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

(2012) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Lack of home-field advantage in the decomposition of leaf litter in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil

(2011) Urs Christian Gießelmann et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

All size classes of soil fauna and litter quality control the acceleration of litter decay in its home environment

(2011) Alexandru Milcu et al.   OIKOS

Soil microbial communities adapt to genetic variation in leaf litter inputs

(2011) Michael D. Madritch et al.   OIKOS

No ‘home’ versus ‘away’ effects of decomposition found in a grassland–forest reciprocal litter transplant study

(2011) Mark G. St. John et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Climate change and invasion by intracontinental range-expanding exotic plants: the role of biotic interactions

(2010) Elly Morriën et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Divergent composition but similar function of soil food webs of individual plants: plant species and community effects

(2010) T. M. Bezemer et al.   ECOLOGY

Leaf litter decomposition in temperate deciduous forest stands with a decreasing fraction of beech (Fagus sylvatica)

(2010) Mascha Jacob et al.   OECOLOGIA

Slowed decomposition is biotically mediated in an ectomycorrhizal, tropical rain forest

(2010) Krista L. McGuire et al.   OECOLOGIA

Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition

(2009) Michael S. Strickland et al.   ECOLOGY

Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests

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

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

(2009) Krista L. McGuire 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

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

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