Rates of litter decomposition over 6 years in Canadian forests: influence of litter quality and climate

By J. A. Trofymow, Tim R. Moore, B. Titus, C. Prescott, I. Morrison, M. Siltanen, Simon Smith, J. Fyles, R. Wein, C. Camiré and 4 more. 2002

354 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e0db0fb4da478d69e8f0a0382fd53e518296dcd9

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Environmental Chemistry

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

In Soil Science

Citations in the corpus

Ecology of ligninolytic fungi associated with leaf litter decomposition (2007, background): “…in litter decomposition rates have been observed in temperate regions and have been ascribed to climatic variables such as mean annual temperature, summer and winter precipitation, and actual evapotranspiration, as determined by (Berg et al. (1993) in Europe and Trofymow et al. (2002) in Canada.”
Long‐term patterns of mass loss during the decomposition of leaf and fine root litter: an intersite comparison (2009, background): “However, the long-term studies (e.g. Aber et al., 1990; Magill & Aber, 1998; Berg et al., 2001; Trofymow et al., 2002; Moore et al., 2005) that have been conducted suggest that in later stages rates of decomposition slow to a degree beyond that captured by a single-exponential decomposition curve.”
Litter decay rates are determined by lignin chemistry (2012, background): “…control over litter decay, given that litter decomposition rates are often negatively correlated with the initial ratios of lignin:N or lignin:cellulose in litter (Aber et al. 1990; Aerts 1997; Cortez et al. 1996; Melillo et al. 1982; Moore et al. 1999; Trofymow et al. 2002; Zhang et al. 2008).”
No ‘home’ versus ‘away’ effects of decomposition found in a grassland–forest reciprocal litter transplant study (2011, background): “decomposition remains unexplained (Adair et al., 2008; Gholz et al., 2000; Trofymow et al., 2002).”
Environmental factors and traits that drive plant litter decomposition do not determine home‐field advantage effects (2015, background): “Therefore, while the predicted increase in temperature in subarctic tundra during this century (IPCC 2013) and concurrent changes in soil properties are likely to have important direct effects on decomposition rates (Figs 2 and 4, Hobbie 1996; Aerts 1997; Trofymow et al. 2002; Salinas et al. 2011; S”
Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate-dependent (2008, background): “Climate and plant litter quality (i.e. chemical composition) are considered the primary regulators of litter decomposition, explaining as much as 65–77% of the variation in decomposition rates (Moorhead et al., 1999; Gholz et al., 2000; Trofymow et al., 2002).”