Leaf diversity alters litter breakdown in a Piedmont stream

By Christopher Swan, M. Palmer. Journal of The North American Benthological Society, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. Verónica Ferreira
2. M. Graça
3. A. Encalada
4. C. LeRoy
5. J. Marks
6. Yiqi Luo
7. J. Kelly
8. Guido Incerti

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Verónica Ferreira
2. C. LeRoy
3. J. Marks
4. A. Encalada
5. Yiqi Luo
6. M. Graça
7. Guido Incerti
8. S. Findlay

Citations in the corpus

• Litter quality, stream characteristics and litter diversity influence decomposition rates and macroinvertebrates (2006, methodology): “The effects of diversity on decomposition may also be context-dependent, change seasonally or be a function of detritivore preference ( Swan & Palmer, 2004 ).”
• Decomposition and nutrient dynamics in mixed litter of Mediterranean species (2010, result): “However, several other studies found no positive relationships between litter diversity and litter decay rate (Chapman et al. 1988; Wardle et al. 1997; Schädler and Brandl 2005; Wardle et al. 2006; Vivanco and Austin, 2008), or even a slower decay rate in mixtures (Swan and Palmer 2004).”
• Does mixing litter of different qualities alter stream microbial diversity and functioning on individual litter species (2009, background): “Biodiversity effects on decomposition have been shown empirically through resource manipulations of plant leaf litter (Gartner and Cardon 2004, Swan and Palmer 2004, Hättenschwiler et al. 2005, Kominoski et al. 2007), as well as consumer-level manipulations of invertebrates (Jonsson and Malmqvist…”
• Within-species variation in foliar chemistry influences leaf-litter decomposition in a Utah river (2007, methodology): “These results contradict other recent research comparing species-level mixtures (Swan and Palmer 2004, LeRoy and Marks 2006), and a terrestrial study using similar cottonwood genotypes (Schweitzer et al. 2005a).”
• Stream microbial ecology (2010, background): “Fungal biomass makes up the largest part of heterotrophic microbial biomass in the first days to weeks of leaf litter decay (Findlay and Arsuffi 1989, Weyers and Suberkropp 1996).”
• Effects of litter diversity on decomposition and biological colonization of submerged litter in temperate and tropical streams (2012, background): “These results suggest that litter species richness may not be an important factor affecting decomposition of diverse litter packs, at least at the low richness levels used in our study (Swan and Palmer 2004, Lecerf et al. 2007b, but see Kominoski et al. 2007).”
• Leaf litter traits predominantly control litter decomposition in streams worldwide (2018, background): “Previous stud‐ ies show that leaf litter with low C:N ratio are preferentially colonized and degraded by aquatic hyphomycetes and invertebrate detritivores (Ferreira et al., 2012; Richardson, Shaughnessy, & Harrison, 2004; Shieh, Wang, Hsu, & Yang, 2008; Swan & Palmer, 2004).”