Environmental factors and traits that drive plant litter decomposition do not determine home-field advantage effects

There's no place like home? An exploration of the mechanisms behind plant litter-decomposer affinity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2014) Amy T. Austin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2014) G. F. Ciska Veen et al.   OIKOS

Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change

(2013) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Plant and microbial responses to nitrogen and phosphorus addition across an elevational gradient in subarctic tundra

(2013) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   ECOLOGY

The within-species leaf economic spectrum does not predict leaf litter decomposability at either the within-species or whole community levels

(2013) Benjamin G. Jackson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Litter quality versus soil microbial community controls over decomposition: a quantitative analysis

(2013) Cory C. Cleveland et al.   OECOLOGIA

Microbial communities may modify how litter quality affects potential decomposition rates as tree species migrate

(2013) Ashley D. Keiser et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Home-Field Advantage: A matter of interaction between litter biochemistry and decomposer biota

(2013) Gabriel Perez et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

Chemical properties of plant litter in response to elevation: subarctic vegetation challenges phenolic allocation theories

(2012) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Plant community type and small-scale disturbances, but not altitude, influence the invasibility in subarctic ecosystems

(2012) Ann Milbau et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Litter chemistry changes more rapidly when decomposed at home but converges during decomposition–transformation

(2012) Matthew D. Wallenstein et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

Within- and Across-Species Responses of Plant Traits and Litter Decomposition to Elevation across Contrasting Vegetation Types in Subarctic Tundra

(2011) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   PLoS One

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

A new conceptual model for the fate of lignin in decomposing plant litter

(2010) Thimo Klotzbücher et al.   ECOLOGY

The sensitivity of tropical leaf litter decomposition to temperature: results from a large-scale leaf translocation experiment along an elevation gradient in Peruvian forests

(2010) N. Salinas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interactive effects of vegetation type and elevation on aboveground and belowground properties in a subarctic tundra

(2010) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   OIKOS

Negligible contribution from roots to soil-borne phospholipid fatty acid fungal biomarkers 18:2ω6,9 and 18:1ω9

(2010) Christina Kaiser et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe

(2009) Claire Fortunel et al.   ECOLOGY

Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition

(2009) Michael S. Strickland et al.   ECOLOGY

Adapt or disperse: understanding species persistence in a changing world

(2009) MATTY P. BERG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground–belowground ecology

(2009) Wim H. van der Putten et al.   OECOLOGIA

Links between plant community composition, soil organic matter quality and microbial communities in contrasting tundra habitats

(2009) Anu Eskelinen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests

(2009) Edward Ayres 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

Effects of Long-Term Nitrogen Addition on Microbial Enzyme Activity in Eight Forested and Grassland Sites: Implications for Litter and Soil Organic Matter Decomposition

(2008) Bonnie L. Keeler et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change

(2008) PHILIP A. WOOKEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

(2008) S. D. Allison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA