Disentangling the Litter Quality and Soil Microbial Contribution to Leaf and Fine Root Litter Decomposition Responses to Reduced Rainfall

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Climate change alters ecological strategies of soil bacteria

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

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

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

Side-effects of plant domestication: ecosystem impacts of changes in litter quality

(2013) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Combined effects of multifactor climate change and land-use on decomposition in temperate grassland

(2013) Julia Walter et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial abundance and composition influence litter decomposition response to environmental change

(2012) Steven D. Allison et al.   ECOLOGY

Litter stoichiometric traits of plant species of high-latitude ecosystems show high responsiveness to global change without causing strong variation in litter decomposition

(2012) R. Aerts et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Growth Response of Drought-Stressed Pinus sylvestris Seedlings to Single- and Multi-Species Inoculation with Ectomycorrhizal Fungi

(2012) Tabea Kipfer et al.   PLoS One

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Land use alters the resistance and resilience of soil food webs to drought

(2012) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   Nature Climate Change

Plant traits and decomposition: are the relationships for roots comparable to those for leaves?

(2011) Marine Birouste et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Ectomycorrhizal communities in a Mediterranean forest ecosystem dominated by Quercus ilex: seasonal dynamics and response to drought in the surface organic horizon

(2011) Franck Richard et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Ecosystem development in roadside grasslands: biotic control, plant–soil interactions, and dispersal limitations

(2011) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Effects of climate change on leaf litter decomposition across post-fire plant regenerative groups

(2011) S. Saura-Mas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

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

Morphological and phenological shoot plasticity in a Mediterranean evergreen oak facing long-term increased drought

(2011) Jean-Marc Limousin et al.   OECOLOGIA

How does drought stress influence the decomposition of plant litter with contrasting quality in a grassland ecosystem?

(2011) M. Sanaullah et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Early-successional vegetation changes after roadside prairie restoration modify processes related with soil functioning by changing microbial functional diversity

(2011) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Drought-resistant fungi control soil organic matter decomposition and its response to temperature

(2010) J.C. YUSTE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Correlation between leaf litter and fine root decomposition among subtropical tree species

(2010) Hui Wang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Long-term transpiration change with rainfall decline in a MediterraneanQuercus ilexforest

(2009) J. M. LIMOUSIN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Edward Ayres et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fine root decomposition rates do not mirror those of leaf litter among temperate tree species

(2009) Sarah E. Hobbie et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Drying and rewetting effects on C and N mineralization and microbial activity in surface and subsurface California grassland soils

(2008) Shu-Rong Xiang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

21st century climate change scenario for the Mediterranean using a coupled atmosphere–ocean regional climate model

(2007) S. Somot et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE