Linkages between plant litter decomposition, litter quality, and vegetation responses to herbivores
By David A. Wardle, Karen I. Bonner, G. Barker. 2002
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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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- Soil feedbacks of plant diversity on soil microbial communities and subsequent plant growth (2005, background): “, 2002a), but it is increasingly recognized that changes in plant diversity also have implications for belowground ecosystem functioning, including diversity of belowground communities of other organisms (e.g. Hooper et al., 2000; Korthals et al., 2001; van der Putten et al., 2001; Wardle et al., 20”
- Relationship between plant species diversity and soil microbial functional diversity along a longitudinal gradient in temperate grasslands of Hulunbeir, Inner Mongolia, China (2008, background): “1999), but it is increasingly recognized that changes in plant diversity also have an impact on belowground ecosystem functioning, including soil processes, soil structure and soil biota (Hooper et al. 2001; Wardle et al. 2002; Zak et al. 2003; Heemsbergen et al. 2004; Bardgett and Shine 1999).”
- Co-variations in litter decomposition, leaf traits and plant growth in species from a Mediterranean old-field succession (2006, background): “First, this suggests that mixing effects in litter produced by complex plant communities are small in comparison with interspecific differences measured for the species of this successional sere (Wardle et al. 2002; Wardle et al. 2003).”
- Temporal dynamics of microbial communities on decomposing leaf litter of 10 plant species in relation to decomposition rate (2012, background): “, 2002), even though only a subset of the entire soil microbial community colonizes plant litter (Giller,1996;Wardle et al., 2002).”
- Recovery of plant species composition and ecosystem function after cessation of grazing in a Mediterranean grassland (2010, methodology): “In this context, lignin and lignin:N ratios have been widely used as indicators of plant litter quality for decomposition (Cornelissen et al. 1999; Gartner and Cardon 2004; Quested et al. 2007; Wardle et al. 2002; Wedderburn and Carter 1999).”
- Do foliar endophytes affect grass litter decomposition? A microcosm approach using Lolium multiflorum (2004, neutral): “decay dynamics (Wardle et al. 2002).”
- Do invertebrate decomposers affect the disappearance rate of litter mixtures (2005, neutral): “This may be due to the retention of moisture by slow decomposing litter and contrasts with results of Wardle et al. (2002) in a moist New Zealand rainforest.”
- Impacts of invasive biota in forest ecosystems in an aboveground–belowground context (2017, background): “These mammals generally remove plant species with relatively large palatable leaves that produce fast decomposing litter, causing their replacement of less palatable plant species with slow decomposing litter, leading to large changes in the functional composition of the vegetation (Fig. 3b; Wardle ”
- Vegetation diversity, growth, quality and decomposition in managed grasslands (2004, background): “Species identity was expected to be more important than species richness to litter decomposition because the tissue quality traits of a community’s dominant species strongly influence litter decomposition (Wardle and Lavelle, 1997; Wardle et al., 2002).”