Soil biota accelerate decomposition in high-elevation forests by specializing in the breakdown of litter produced by the plant species above them

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 901-912

  Ayres, Edward ^a   Steltzer, Heidi ^a   Berg, Sarah ^a   Wall, Diana H ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional redundancy; Home field advantage; Litter decomposition; Reciprocal transplant; San Juan Mountains; Soil biodiversity; Subalpine forests

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECOMPOSITION; ELEVATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LITTER; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL BIOTA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT;

PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PINUS CONTORTA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 68849099155     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01539.x     Document Type: Article

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