Disentangling the mechanisms underlying functional differences among decomposer communities

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Revisiting the hypothesis that fungal-to-bacterial dominance characterizes turnover of soil organic matter and nutrients (2015, background): “Despite their integral biogeochemical role, the explicit incorporation of microbial dynamics into C cycle models is limited by insufficient knowledge of if and how microbial community structure translates into functional relevance (Fierer et al. 2007, Keiser et al. 2014).”
Functional Traits and Trait-Mediated Interactions: Connecting Community-Level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning (2015, background): “For example, Keiser et al. (2014) argued that some communities have a strong home field advantage, wherein they degrade litter from their environment better than foreign litter.”
Decay rates of leaf litters from arbuscular mycorrhizal trees are more sensitive to soil effects than litters from ectomycorrhizal trees (2015, background): “Conversely, decomposer communities exposed to high-quality litter matrices with lower chemical diversity will have a narrower functional breadth (Van der Heijden, Bardgett & van Straalen 2008; Keiser et al. 2011, 2014; Keiser, Knoepp & Bradford 2013).”
Microbial community composition affects soil organic carbon turnover in mineral soils (2017, background): “Another concept claiming that decomposer communities are functionally dissimilar is the hypothesis of ‘home-field advantage’ (Keiser et al. 2014).”