Microbiota, fauna, and mesh size interactions in litter decomposition

By Mark A Bradford, G. Tordoff, Till Eggers, T. Jones, J. Newington. 2002

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Do invertebrate decomposers affect the disappearance rate of litter mixtures (2005, positive): “We therefore agree with Bradford et al. (2002) and consider the breakdown and loss of small litter fragments from the sample as a functional role of decomposer fauna.”
Field decomposition of transgenic Bt maize residue and the impact on non-target soil invertebrates (2007, methodology): “…constrained by the facts that small mesh bags were buried in a different depth and contained less residue than the two larger mesh size bags, research by Bradford et al. (2002) showed that increasing the mesh size had a positive effect on decomposition even after accounting for mesh size effects.”
The role of habitat complexity on spider communities in native alpine grasslands of New Zealand (2013, background): “As a major element of global biodiversity (Wilson, 1987; Chapman, 2009), arthropods provide fundamental functions in natural and modified ecosystems (Beare et al., 1992; Bradford et al., 2002), and they are increasingly being used in nature conservation management (Schmidt et al., 2008).”