Diversity meets decomposition

MO Gessner, CM Swan, CK Dang, BG McKie… - Trends in ecology & …, 2010 - cell.com
… experiments of leaf decomposition in forest floors and streams, we suggest that changes in
species diversity within and across trophic levels can significantly alter decomposition. This …

Diversity-decomposition relationships in forests worldwide

L Kou, L Jiang, S Hättenschwiler, M Zhang, S Niu, X Fu… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
… Litter diversity also accelerated nitrogen, but not phosphorus release, potentially indicating
… of litter diversity effects for carbon and nutrient dynamics during decomposition, and show …

Multiple interactions between tree composition and diversity and microbial diversity underly litter decomposition

W Xiao, HYH Chen, P Kumar, C Chen, Q Guan - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
… effects of tree species diversity and composition on litter decomposition rate via litter … diversity
would have a positive effect on litter decomposition by promoting litter chemistry diversity (…

A meta-analysis on decomposition quantifies afterlife effects of plant diversity as a global change driver

AS Mori, JHC Cornelissen, S Fujii, K Okada… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… After synthesizing effects of litter diversity on decomposition rates, we compare the … in
biodiversity could alter decomposition compared with changes in decomposition that have been …

[HTML][HTML] Key plant species and detritivores drive diversity effects on instream leaf litter decomposition more than functional diversity: A microcosm study

J Rubio-Ríos, J Pérez, MJ Salinas, E Fenoy… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
decomposition, nutrient cycling, and fungal and detritivore biomass. We found (i) positive
diversity effects on detritivore-mediated decomposition… down of the decomposition process as a …

Plant diversity and local environmental conditions indirectly affect litter decomposition in a tropical forest

RAC Oliveira, R Marques, MCM Marques - Applied soil ecology, 2019 - Elsevier
… are relatively well known, the indirect effects of diversity, and the local community and … of
plant diversity on litter decomposition in a tropical forest. We assessed diversity using different …

Functional identity rather than functional diversity or species richness controls litter mixture decomposition in a subtropical forest

G Lin, DH Zeng - Plant and soil, 2018 - Springer
diversity of litterfall. Therefore, much more work is needed to fully understand plant diversity
effects on litter decomposition … litter decomposition and the indirect effect of plant diversity on …

[HTML][HTML] Increased decomposer diversity accelerates and potentially stabilises litter decomposition

F Kitz, M Steinwandter, M Traugott, J Seeber - Soil Biology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
… Notably, the variability in decomposition was greatly reduced when decomposer diversity was
… invertebrate decomposer diversity is essential for sustaining litter decomposition in alpine …

Decomposition decreases molecular diversity and ecosystem similarity of soil organic matter

R Davenport, BP Bowen, LM Lynch… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
… -scale controls on SOM diversity and variability in soil. Here, we show that microbial
decomposition drives significant variability in the molecular richness and diversity of SOM between …

Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition

L Boyero, J Pérez, N López-Rojo, AM Tonin… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
… differences in decomposition of litter mixtures of low and high functional diversity in 40 …
in the effect of litter functional diversity on decomposition, which we explained as evolutionary …