Consequences of the reduction of plant diversity for litter decomposition: effects through litter quality and microenvironment

By Andy Hector, A. Beale, A. Minns, S. Otway, J. Lawton. 2000

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Effects of Tree Species Diversity on Litter Quality and Decomposition (2005, background): “A few investigations with mainly herbaceous species included many species and several levels of diversity (e.g., Wardle et al. 1997; Hector et al. 2000), and found largely unpredictable, idiosyncratic responses of litter mass loss to increasing species richness.”
Assessing the effects of land-use change on plant traits, communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: a standardized methodology and lessons from an application to 11 European sites. (2007, background): “At the time of the major peak of natural senescence, litter of all plant parts of all vascular plant species was collected in the proportions in which it is naturally shed in the plots (Hector et al., 2000; Knops et al., 2001).”
Comparisons of litterfall, litter decomposition and nutrient return in a monoculture Cunninghamia lanceolata and a mixed stand in southern China (2008, background): “However, these studies have not shown consistent effects of litter mixing on decomposition rates, which are positive, negative, or neutral (Hansen, 2000; Hector et al., 2000; Wardle et al., 2003; Polyakova and Billor, 2007).”
Effects of fungal endophytes on grass and non-grass litter decomposition rates (2011, background): “These interactions have been shown to affect ecosystem processes, for example, soil respiration (Madritch and Hunter 2003) and decomposition (Hector et al. 2000; Knops et al. 2001; Gartner and Cardon 2004).”
Litter production, leaf litter decomposition and nutrient return in Cunninghamia lanceolata plantations in south China: effect of planting conifers with broadleaved species (2007, background): “Studies about litter mixing effects on decomposition rate have not shown consistent results and can be positive, negative, or neutral depending on the combinations of species used (Conn and Dighton 2000; Hector et al. 2000; Nilsson et al. 1999; Wardle et al. 2003).”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: recent theoretical advances (2000, background): “…that other ecosystem processes, such as decomposition, might be little affected by species diversity (Naeem et al. 1994a, 1995, Wardle et al. 1997a, Mikola and Setälä 1998, Hector et al. 2000), or that the response may differ in different systems (see Schläpfer and Schmid 1999 for a review).”