The influence of plant litter diversity on decomposer abundance and diversity

By David A. Wardle, G. Yeates, G. Barker, Karen I. Bonner. 2006

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Subfields: Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Effects of monoculture and mixed culture of grass and legume forage species on soil microbial community structure under different levels of nitrogen fertilization (2015, background): “In general, legumes benefit the bacterial-mediated decomposition more than the fungal-mediated decomposition because the nitrogen-enriched litter is more accessible to bacteria than fungi [20,42,43].”
Exotic plant influences soil nematode communities through litter input (2007, background): “Many previous studies have found that plant species differ tremendously in litter quality they have produced (Vestergaard et al., 2001; Wardle et al., 2006), and that the decomposition rate is positively related to nitrogen concentration of litter (Taylor et al.”
Light, earthworms, and soil resources as predictors of diversity of 10 soil invertebrate groups across monocultures of 14 tree species (2016, neutral): “…communities, plant species often have divergent impacts on the diversity of soil animal communities; this “ plant species identity ” effect is often larger than effects of plant species richness (Wardle et al., 2003, 2006; De Deyn et al., 2004; Ball et al., 2009; Eissfeller et al., 2013b).”
Changes in the community structure and diversity of soil invertebrates across the Franz Josef Glacier chronosequence (2008, background): “Different groups of soil fauna peaked at different stages, presumably because taxa differ in their responses to bottom-up and top-down controls across the sequence (Wardle et al., 2006).”
Effects of plant diversity on plant biomass production and soil macrofauna in Amazonian pastures (2008, result): “Our results suggest instead, as Wardle et al. (2006) have explained, that many soil fauna species are generalists in terms of feeding and habitat preference and may, therefore, be relatively unresponsive to subtle differences in resource quality.”
Carbon quality rather than stoichiometry controls litter decomposition in a tropical rain forest (2010, result): “No effect of litter species richness on decomposition of litter mixtures is in line with a number of previous studies (Wardle, Bonner & Nicholson 1997;Wardle et al. 2006; Scherer-Lorenzen, Bonilla & Potvin 2007; Ball et al. 2008).”
Tillage, residue burning and crop rotation alter soil fungal community and water-stable aggregation in arable fields (2010, background): “, 2001) and fosters cellulose decomposing fungi (Franchini et al., 2002; Wardle et al., 2006) and thereby carbon cycling.”
Decomposition and nutrient dynamics in mixed litter of Mediterranean species (2010, methodology): “Wardle et al. (1997) argued that the effect of litter mixing would be greater when contrasting litter qualities are mixed, but some evidences from other studies are controversial with this hypothesis (Hoorens et al. 2003; Wardle et al. 2006).”
Biochar in bioenergy cropping systems: impacts on soil faunal communities and linked ecosystem processes (2013, background): “…inputs to soil, thereby potentially elevating the abundance, biomass and diversity of microbes (Matlack, 2001; Topoliantz & Ponge, 2005), soil microarthropods (Borges & Brown, 2001; Siemann et al., 1998), earthworms (Cesarz et al., 2007) and certain nematodes (Wardle et al., 2006) (Fig.”
Soil and litter fauna of cacao agroforestry systems in Bahia, Brazil (2009, background): “Furthermore, plant diversification in agroforestry and forest systems provide a diversity of microhabitats, contribute to a larger density and soil biological diversity (Laossi et al. 2008; Richter et al. 2007; Brown et al. 2006; Wardle et al. 2006; TapiaCoral et al. 1999), and the spatial heterogen”
Biodiversity and multiple ecosystem functions in an organic farmscape. (2010, background): “Alternatively, fewer bacterial feeding nematodes may be associated with higher actinomycete abundance (Wardle et al., 2006).”
Is Tree Species Diversity or Species Identity the More Important Driver of Soil Carbon Stocks, C/N Ratio, and pH? (2016, background): “…of higher variety of litter substrates to decomposers and thereby higher activities of soil organisms in 355 diverse forests (Bardgett et al., 2005; Wardle et al., 2006), but it remains to be further documented whether 356 higher decomposition rates in litter mixtures (Ball et al., 2014) is the…”