Do plant species encourage soil biota that specialise in the rapid decomposition of their litter

By E. Ayres, K. Dromph, R. Bardgett. 2006

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. M. Bradford
2. M. Strickland
3. A. Austin
4. Lucía Vivanco
5. Michelle C. Mack
6. Noah Fierer
7. C. Lauber
8. D. Wall

In Soil Science

1. M. Bradford
2. M. Strickland
3. Noah Fierer
4. C. Lauber
5. Lucía Vivanco
6. A. Austin
7. Michelle C. Mack
8. S. Berg

Citations in the corpus

• Temporal dynamics of microbial communities on decomposing leaf litter of 10 plant species in relation to decomposition rate (2012, result): “Empirical tests of the functional equivalency hypothesis have been limited providing no consistent support or rejection of the functional equivalency hypothesis (Ayres et al., 2006; Balser and Firestone, 2005; Wertz et al., 2006).”
• Soil biota accelerate decomposition in high‐elevation forests by specializing in the breakdown of litter produced by the plant species above them (2009, background): “While the decomposition capacity of these soil communities has not been investigated previously, other studies have shown that soil communities associated with three European tree species ( Ayres, Dromph & Bardgett 2006 ) and three geographically isolated North American ecosystems (Strickland et al.”
• Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition. (2009, background): “These results support the ‘‘home field advantage’’ hypothesis (Gholz et al. 2000, Ayres et al. 2006), suggesting that soil microbial communities display some adaptation (or pre-adaptation) to their past resource environment.”
• Tree species identity alters forest litter decomposition through long‐term plant and soil interactions in Patagonia, Argentina (2008, background): “The only explicit test of affinity effects in a single ecosystem, to our knowledge, was conducted by Ayres et al. (2006), who incubated litter from different tree species with soil inoculums prepared from soil beneath a stand of each species.”
• Litter quality is in the eye of the beholder: initial decomposition rates as a function of inoculum characteristics (2009, result): “Also confirming our original hypothesis was the observation that communities sourced from either habitat generally perceived the high chemical quality P. virgatum litter equally (Fig. 2), a result also observed in studies which have found no differences in decomposition rates across sites for the sa”