Breakdown and nutrient dynamics of submerged Phragmites shoots in the littoral zone of a temperate hardwater lake

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Microbial biomass, growth, and respiration associated with submerged litter of Phragmites australis decomposing in a littoral reed stand of a large lake (2000, background): “Additional subsampIes of corresponding leaf and stern material were dried at 105°C and AFDM determined.”
Biological Flora of the British Isles: Phragmites australis (2017, background): “Very little biomass is consumed as living tissue, and most of it enters the general pool of particulate organic matter following shoot senescence and death (Gessner 2000 and the references therein).”
DIEL MINERALIZATION PATTERNS OF STANDING-DEAD PLANT LITTER: IMPLICATIONS FOR CO2 FLUX FROM WETLANDS (2004, background): “Because culms of P. australis are particularly water repellent and difficult to decay (Hietz 1992, Gessner 2000), they may represent an extreme among emergent wetland plants.”
Exotic plant influences soil nematode communities through litter input (2007, background): “Since the two plant species were reported to differ in their litter quality such as nitrogen and lignin concentrations (Windham, 2001; Gessner, 2000; Cheng et al., 2006), we hypothesized that the invasions of S. alterniflora influence nematode communities through producing litter with higher…”