Long‐term patterns of mass loss during the decomposition of leaf and fine root litter: an intersite comparison

By M. Harmon, Whendee Silver, B. Fasth, Hua Chen, I. Burke, W. Parton, S. Hart, W. Currie. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Soil Science

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In Ecology

1. J. H. C. Cornelissen
2. Peter B. Reich
3. D. Peltzer
4. Joseph M. Craine
5. Sean Schaeffer
6. J. Schimel
7. David A. Wardle
8. Eric W. Seabloom

In Environmental Chemistry

1. J. H. C. Cornelissen
2. Josep Peñuelas
3. I. Wright
4. Jörg C Müller
5. Peter B. Reich
6. Joseph M. Craine
7. D. Peltzer
8. David A. Wardle

In Soil Science

1. Peter B. Reich
2. Joseph M. Craine
3. J. H. C. Cornelissen
4. J. Schimel
5. Josep Peñuelas
6. David A. Wardle
7. D. Peltzer
8. Sean Schaeffer

Citations in the corpus

• Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil (2012, methodology): “…(DEB-0444712; DEB-1145875) and for supporting the Enzymes in the Environment Research Coordination Network, which supported the workshop “Incorporating Enzymes and Microbial Physiology into Biogeochemical Models” in Ft. Collins Co in May 2012; participants at the workshop offered valuable insights.”
• Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments (2014, methodology): “Collaborative experimental networks, such as ITEX (Elmendorf et al. 2012), LiNX (Mulholland et al. 2002), LI- DET (Harmon et al. 2009) and Biodepth (Hector et al. 1999), help address these issues by providing the context to implement consistent and standardized local designs that act in concert, in ”
• Factors controlling decomposition rates of fine root litter in temperate forests and grasslands (2014, background): “…studies have been designed to identify predictors of fine root decomposition (Chen et al. 2002; Cusack et al. 2009; Fahey et al. 1988; Ostertag and Hobbie 1999), and even fewer extend beyond a single ecosystem (e.g. Long-term Intersite Decomposition Experiment (LIDET), Harmon et al. 2009).”
• Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: the role of functional traits within and across plant organs (2014, background): “Although widely used both historically and currently, the single negative exponential decay model is a drastic oversimplification of the decay process and can lead to inaccurate extrapolations whenever actual mass loss deviates from the assumed first-order dynamics (Harmon et al., 2009).”