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

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

Microbial communities on litter of managed and abandoned alpine pastureland

(2011) Brigitte Amalia Knapp et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

A meta-analysis of the effects of nitrogen additions on base cations: Implications for plants, soils, and streams

(2011) R.W. Lucas et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Long-term presence of tree species but not chemical diversity affect litter mixture effects on decomposition in a neotropical rainforest

(2011) Sandra Barantal et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Effects of phosphorus addition on soil microbial biomass and community composition in three forest types in tropical China

(2011) Lei Liu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Litter decomposition in fertilizer treatments of vegetable crops under irrigated subtropical conditions

(2010) Nils Rottmann et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Urbanization-related changes in European aspen (Populus tremula L.): Leaf traits and litter decomposition

(2010) Suvi Nikula et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Nitrogen addition stimulates forest litter decomposition and disrupts species interactions in Patagonia, Argentina

(2010) LUCÍA VIVANCO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Decomposition of labile and recalcitrant litter types under different plant communities in urban soils

(2010) Saara Vauramo et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

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

Plant litter quality influences the contribution of soil fauna to litter decomposition in humid tropical forests, southwestern China

(2009) Xiaodong Yang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests

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

Decomposition of aspen leaf litter results in unique metabolomes when decomposed under different tree species

(2009) Matthew D. Wallenstein et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Leaf litter decomposition in the pure and mixed plantations of Cunninghamia lanceolata and Michelia macclurei in subtropical China

(2008) Qingkui Wang et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

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

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

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

Relative effect of litter quality, forest type and their interaction on leaf decomposition in south-east Brazilian forests

(2008) Camila de Toledo Castanho et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Species-specific characteristics of trees can determine the litter macroinvertebrate community and decomposition process below their canopies

(2008) Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich et al.   PLANT AND SOIL