Using experimental manipulation to assess the roles of leaf litter in the functioning of forest ecosystems
By E. Sayer. Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2005
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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science
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- Plant canopy effects on litter accumulation and soil microbial biomass in two temperate forests (2008, positive): “Forest litter is not only the major source of soil organic matter in a forest ecosystem but it also acts as an insulating layer that protects the soil from extreme fluctuations in moisture content and temperature (Sayer 2006).”
- Litterfall and nutrient return in five tree species in a common garden experiment. (2009, background): “Litter dynamics is as such an important pathway for the return of nutrients to the forest soil, an important component in the accumulation of soil organic matter (SOM) and one of themajor inputs of C to the soil and thus an important C source for SOM (Sayer, 2006).”
- Soil recovery after removal of the N2-fixing invasive Acacia longifolia: consequences for ecosystem restoration (2009, background): “Leaf litter is thought to be one of the main causes of altered inputs to soil by A. longifolia, because litter is a major source of soil organic matter, which strongly influences soil pools and microbial processes ( Sayer 2006 ).”
- Soil and litter fauna of cacao agroforestry systems in Bahia, Brazil (2009, background): “Litter removal usually leads a decline in micro and macroarthropods populations in soil ( Sayer 2005; Barros et al. 2003).”
- Effects of litter on seedling establishment in natural and semi‐natural grasslands: a meta‐analysis (2013, background): “This in turn may hamper recruitment and affect the structure, diversity and dynamics of plant communities (Fowler 1986; Bergelson 1990; Facelli & Pickett 1991a; Spa ckov a & Lep s 2004; Sayer 2006; Rasran, Vogt & Jensen 2007; Ruprecht et al. 2010a; Eckstein et al. 2011).”
- Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests (2012, background): “The positive relationship between increasing litter quality and the share of lightdemanding species may be related to the difficulties these species experience in germinating and ⁄or establishing on sites where a litter layer has accumulated (Sydes &Grime 1981; Eriksson 1995; Dzwonko&Gawronski 2002;”