Soil biota accelerate decomposition in high‐elevation forests by specializing in the breakdown of litter produced by the plant species above them

By E. Ayres, H. Steltzer, S. Berg, D. Wall. 2009

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

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Plant secondary metabolites: a key driver of litter decomposition and soil nutrient cycling (2016, background): “…it was derived than in a foreign habitat, which has been termed the homefield advantage (HFA) of litter decomposition (Hunt et al. 1988; Gholz et al. 2000; Ayres, Dromph & Bardgett 2006; Vivanco & Austin 2008; Ayres et al. 2009a,b; Strickland et al. 2009; Veen et al. 2014; Chomel et al. 2015).”
Contrasting mass‐ratio vs. niche complementarity effects on litter C and N loss during decomposition along a regional climatic gradient (2017, background): “decomposer adaptations (Ayres et al. 2009), except for the two lowest altitude sites where Q.”
Disentangling the mechanisms underlying functional differences among decomposer communities (2014, methodology): “Ayres et al. (2009a) modified the analytical solution found in Clarke and Norman’s sports model to derive HFA for litter decomposition in a 3-”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “Tree species have been shown to create soil conditions that enhance decomposition of their own litter (Ayres et al., 2009a,b; Vivanco and Austin, 123Connecting the Green and Brown Worlds 2008).”
Multiple mechanisms for trait effects on litter decomposition: moving beyond home‐field advantage with a new hypothesis (2012, background): “…de Toledo Castanho & de Oliveira 2008), highly contrasting litter qualities (Hunt et al. 1988; Gholz et al. 2000; Strickland et al. 2009a,b; Jacob et al. 2010) and most often took place in (eco-)systems dominated by single plant species (Hunt et al. 1988; Vivanco& Austin 2008; Ayres et al. 2009a).”
The effect of resource history on the functioning of soil microbial communities is maintained across time (2011, background): “…flexibility and rapid evolution, soil microbial communities are traditionally assumed to be functionally similar with regard to broad-physiological processes such as the decomposition of organic carbon (Allison and Martiny, 2008; Schimel, 1995; Green et al., 2008; McGuire and Treseder, 2010).”