Multiple mechanisms for trait effects on litter decomposition: moving beyond home‐field advantage with a new hypothesis

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Decomposition of Eucalyptus grandis and Acacia mangium leaves and fine roots in tropical conditions did not meet the Home Field Advantage hypothesis (2016, background): “So far as we are aware, only three studies have tested the HFA hypothesis for fine roots and the results do not show a clear pattern (Gholz et al., 2000; Freschet et al., 2012b; Osanai et al., 2012).”
The Role of Plant Litter in Driving Plant-Soil Feedbacks (2019, background): “The hypothesis is that home-field advantage effects are driven by species-specific associations between plants and decomposer communities (Freschet et al., 2012a; Austin et al., 2014).”
Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil (2012, background): “…site is more effective than communities from other sites; the “home-field advantage” (Sinsabaugh and Moorhead, 1994; Schimel et al., 1999; Aneja et al., 2004; Craine et al., 2007; Strickland et al., 2009; Baumann et al., 2011; Freschet et al., 2011; Baldrian et al., 2012; Schneider et al., 2012).”