Detritus, trophic dynamics and biodiversity

By John C. Moore, Eric L Berlow, D. Coleman, Q. Dong, N. Johnson, K. McCann, K. Melville, P. Morin, A. Rosemond, D. Post and 3 more. 2004

1,172 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. G. Woodward
2. J. Emmett Duffy
3. Owen L. Petchey
4. Michel Loreau
5. Jennifer A. Dunne
6. J. Benstead
7. W. Cross
8. Carolyn B. Marshall

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. G. Woodward
2. J. Emmett Duffy
3. Michel Loreau
4. Owen L. Petchey
5. Carolyn B. Marshall
6. Jennifer A. Dunne
7. R. Turkington
8. J. McLaren

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. G. Woodward
2. J. Emmett Duffy
3. Michel Loreau
4. Owen L. Petchey
5. Jennifer A. Dunne
6. Carolyn B. Marshall
7. William F. Fagan
8. J. McLaren

Citations in the corpus

• From peds to paradoxes: linkages between soil biota and their influences on ecological processes. (2008, background): “Recent studies of synthesized soil food webs suggest that food web composition, rather than the diversity of the organisms within trophic levels, drives decomposition properties, and omnivory plays a key regulating role as well (Mikola and Setälä, 1998; Moore et al., 2004) and plant productivity (La”
• The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls (2017, background): “…the rates, pathways, and fates of plant litter decay (Beare et al. 1992, Cárcamo et al. 2000, David 2014), both through direct consumption and transformation of plant detritus and through shredding and fragmentation, which provide increased surface area for microbial activity (Moore et al. 2004).”
• Recent advances in ecological stoichiometry: insights for population and community ecology (2005, background): “Moreover, because the elemental composition of detritus changes over the course of decomposition (Hobbie 2000), there are opportunities for feeding specialization by decomposers along a stoichiometric axis, which may contribute to diversity of detritivore species (Moore et al. 2004).”
• Macroalgal detritus and food-web subsidies along an Arctic fjord depth-gradient (2015, background): “These results indicate that macroalgal detritus can contribute significantly to near-shore Arctic food-webs, a trophic link that may increase if macroalgae increase in the Arctic as predicted.”
• Functional Traits and Trait-Mediated Interactions: Connecting Community-Level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning (2015, methodology): “environmental conditions or competition (Goberna et al., 2014; Moore et al., 2004).”
• Soil microbial communities resistant to changes in plant functional group composition (2011, background): “Soil organic matter, or detritus, is a more stable, persistent, source of energy than primary production (Moore et al., 2004) and may stabilize soil communities against changes in plant community structure.”
• Ecological Networks in a Changing Climate (2010, background): “soil food webs), often via external subsidies (Moore et al., 2004).”
• Use of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in insect trophic ecology (2015, background): “This represents a challenge because the diet of many detritivores consists of a mixture of decomposed plant substrates, microbial tissues and secondary metabolites, which are all attached to the substrate (Moore et al. 2004).”
• The Network Structure of Food Webs (2005, background): “Researchers must think much more carefully about how to include detritus in all kinds of ecological studies (Moore et al. 2004), given that it plays a fundamental role in most”