Leaf digestibility and litter decomposability are related in a wide range of subarctic plant species and types

By J. H. C. Cornelissen, Helen M. Quested, D. Gwynn-Jones, R. Logtestijn, M. D. Beus, A. Kondratchuk, T. Callaghan, Rien Aerts. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability (2012, background): “Structural and chemical leaf traits have ‘afterlife’ effects on litter decomposability (Cornelissen et al. 2004).”
Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change (2009, background): “Central to this, the lignin content of plant residues is a major determinant of litter breakdown, because of its structural stability and biochemical recalcitrance, with the result that decomposition of plant materials can usually be related to the lignin-to-N ratio, or other similar quality indices”
Specific leaf area explains differences in leaf traits between congeneric savanna and forest trees (2005, background): “2004), and palatability (Cornelissen et al. 2004), so the differences in leaf traits between savanna and forest species are likely to have important implications for carbon nutrient cycling in the respective habitats.”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “:P in litter (cf. Cornelissen et al., 2004; Quested et al., 2003), and when the foliar concentrations of N and P are higher, less P is retranslocated while translocation of N seems independent of foliar N (Fig.”
Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora (2010, background): “Lignin is inversely correlated with digestibility (Cornelissen et al. 2004).”
Interspecific differences in wood decay rates: insights from a new short‐term method to study long‐term wood decomposition (2012, methodology): “The litter-bag samples were incubated in outdoor litter beds in an experimental garden surrounded by birch forest at Abisko Research Station, on 23 April 2008, following Cornelissen et al. (2004).”
Is tropical montane forest heterogeneity promoted by a resource-driven feedback cycle? Evidence from nutrient relations, herbivory and litter decomposition along a topographical gradient (2015, background): “Because most of the characteristics that reduce foliage palatability and digestibility by herbivores also reduce decomposability of litter, herbivory ultimately also affects decomposition and hence nutrient cycling (Cornelissen et al. 2004; Kurokawa & Nakashizuka 2008).”