Linking litter calcium, earthworms and soil properties: a common garden test with 14 tree species

By Peter B. Reich, J. Oleksyn, J. Modrzyński, P. Mroziński, S. Hobbie, D. Eissenstat, J. Chorover, Oliver A. Chadwick, C. Hale, M. Tjoelker. 2005

716 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/157a5f33b71e73f776550a6598853390bcc6741c

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Environmental Chemistry

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

In Soil Science

Citations in the corpus

Is Tree Species Diversity or Species Identity the More Important Driver of Soil Carbon Stocks, C/N Ratio, and pH? (2016, background): “Based on a common garden 431 experiment in Poland, it was reported that forest floor pH decreased in the order B. pendula > Q. robur > C. 432 betulus > P. abies > P. sylvestris (Reich et al., 2005).”
Tree Species Identity Shapes Earthworm Communities (2017, background): “Other studies have reported good correlations between forest floor decomposition rates and earthworm populations, because of the positive influence of leaf litter quality on earthworm populations [26,27,31,33,54].”
How much does climate change threaten European forest tree species distributions? (2018, background): “Dominant tree species determine nutrient cycling (e.g., Hobbie et al., 2006; Mueller et al., 2012; Reich et al., 2005), light availability (e.”
Decomposition of the finest root branching orders: linking belowground dynamics to fine-root function and structure (2011, background): “The species differ in numerous ways at tissue and plant scales, including their litter Ca content, which has been linked to rates of forest floor turnover (Reich et al. 2005, Hobbie et al. 2006).”
Ecology and ecosystem impacts of common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica): a review (2007, background): “Leaf litter that is high in N (Hendriksen 1990) and Ca (Reich et al. 2005) may be an attractive food source for earthworms, potentially facilitating denser earthworm populations .”
Tree species traits cause divergence in soil acidification during four decades of postagricultural forest development (2012, background): “Tree species with a lower leaf litter quality, such as Quercus, provide less palatable food for earthworms and thus prevent the establishment of large earthworm populations (Reich et al., 2005).”
Tree diversity is key for promoting the diversity and abundance of forest‐associated taxa in Europe (2020, background): “The negative effect of CWM height on earthworm abundance may be an indirect effect mediated by soil quality, as CWM height was negatively correlated with soil pH and low soil pH is known to reduce earthworm abundance (Reich et al. 2005).”
Light, earthworms, and soil resources as predictors of diversity of 10 soil invertebrate groups across monocultures of 14 tree species (2016, neutral): “1) and is positively correlated with earthworm biomass ( R 2 ¼ 0.51, P 0.0001), most of which is attributable to L. terrestris (Reich et al., 2005).”
Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes. (2008, neutral): “Plant litter quality, especially low C : N ratio and adequate size, enhances soil ecosystem engineering by earthworms and termites (Lavelle et al. 1997; Eggleton & Tayasu 2001), while earthworms are promoted further by high litter Ca (Reich et al. 2005).”
Distribution and impacts of invasive earthworms in Canadian forest ecosystems (2008, background): “In addition, not all species of coniferous litter are equally unpalatable (Reich et al. 2005).”