Home-Field Advantage: A matter of interaction between litter biochemistry and decomposer biota

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 245-254

  Perez, Gabriel ^a   Aubert, Michaël ^a   Decaëns, Thibaud ^a   Trap, Jean ^b   Chauvat, Matthieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UMR ECO SOLS   (France)

Author keywords

Decomposer community; Home Field Advantage; Litter decomposition; Litter quality; Reciprocal transplant; Soil biota interactions; Substrate quality Matrix quality Interaction; Succession

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSER COMMUNITIES; HOME-FIELD ADVANTAGE; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; LITTER QUALITY; SOIL BIOTA; SUCCESSION;

SOILS;

SOIL TESTING;

BIOCHEMISTRY; DECOMPOSITION; LIGNIN; LITTER; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SUCCESSION;

EID: 84884707170     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Aerts R. Climate, leaf litter chemistry and leaf litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems: a triangular relationship. Oikos 1997, 79:439-449.
2. Anderson J.M. The breakdown and decomposition of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) and beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Leaf litter in two deciduous woodland soils. I. Breakdown, leaching and decomposition. Oecologia 1973, 12:251-274.
3. Aubert M., Margerie P., Trap J., Bureau F. Aboveground-belowground relationships in temperate forests: plant litter composes and microbiota orchestrates. For. Ecol. Manag. 2010, 259:563-572.
4. Ayres E., Dromph K.M., Bardgett R.D. Do plant species encourage soil biota that specialise in the rapid decomposition of their litter?. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2006, 38:183-186.
5. Ayres E., Steltzer H., Berg S., Wall D.H. Soil biota accelerate decomposition in high-elevation forests by specializing in the breakdown of litter produced by the plant species above them. J.Ecol. 2009, 97:901-912.
6. Ayres E., Steltzer H., Simmons B.L., Simpson R.T., Steinweg J.M., Wallenstein M.D., Mellor N., Parton W.J., Moore J.C., Wall D.H. Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2009, 41:606-610.
7. Bardgett R.D. Causes and consequences of biological diversity in soil. Zoology 2002, 105:367-374.
8. Bardgett R.D., Shine A. Linkages between plant litter diversity, soil microbial biomass and ecosystem function in temperate grasslands. Soil Biol. Biochem. 1999, 31:317-321.
9. Berg B., Berg M.P., Bottner P., Box E., Breymeyer A., Anta R.C.D., Couteaux M., Escudero A., Gallardo A., Kratz W., Madeira M., Mälkönen E., McClaugherty C., Meentemeyer V., Muñoz F., Piussi P., Remacle J., Santo A.V.D. Litter mass loss rates in pine forests of Europe and Eastern United States: some relationships with climate and litter quality. Biogeochemistry 1993, 20:127-159.
10. Berg M.P., Hemerik L. Secondary succession of terrestrial isopod, centipede, and millipede communities in grasslands under restoration. Biol. Fertil. Soils 2004, 40:163-170.
11. Berg M.P., Kniese J.P., Bedaux J.J.M., Verhoef H.A. Dynamics and stratification of functional groups of micro- and mesoarthropods in the organic layer of a Scots pine forest. Biol. Fertil. Soils 1998, 26:268-284.
12. Bocock K.L., Gilbert O.J.W. The disappearance of leaf litter under different woodland conditions. Plant Soil 1957, 9:179-185.
13. Bokhorst S., Wardle D.A. Microclimate within litter bags of different mesh size: implications for the 'arthropod effect' on litter decomposition. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2013, 58:147-152.
14. Bradford M.A., Jones T.H., Bardgett R.D., Black H.I.J., Boag B., Bonkowski M., Cook R., Eggers T., Gange A.C., Grayston S.J., Kandeler E., McCaig A.E., Newington J.E., Prosser J.I., Setälä H., Staddon P.L., Tordoff G.M., Tscherko D., Lawton J.H. Impacts of soil faunal community composition on model grassland ecosystems. Science 2002, 298:615-618.
15. Bradford M.A., Tordoff G.M., Eggers T., Jones T.H., Newington J.E. Microbiota, fauna, and mesh size interactions in litter decomposition. Oikos 2002, 99:317-323.
16. Chabrerie O., Laval K., Puget P., Desaire S., Alard D. Relationship between plant and soil microbial communities along a successional gradient in a chalk grassland in north-western France. Appl. Soil Ecol. 2003, 24:43-56.
17. Chapin F.S., Zavaleta E.S., Eviner V.T., Naylor R.L., Vitousek P.M., Reynolds H.L., Hooper D.U., Lavorel S., Sala O.E., Hobbie S.E., Mack M.C., Diaz S. Consequences of changing biodiversity. Nature 2000, 405:234-242.
18. Chauvat M., Wolters V., Dauber J. Response of Collembolan communities to land-use change and grassland succession. Ecography 2007, 30:183-192.
19. Chauvat M., Zaitsev A.S., Wolters V. Successional changes of Collembola and soil microbiota during forest rotation. Oecologia 2003, 137:269-276.
20. Clarke S.R., Norman J.M. Home ground advantage of individual clubs in English soccer. Statistician 1995, 44:509-521.
21. 2 and litter quality: decomposition of sweet chestnut leaf litter with animal food webs of different complexities. Oikos 1991, 61:54-64.
22. De Ruiter P.C.D., Moore J.C., Zwart K.B., Bouwman L.A., Hassink J., Bloem J., Vos J.A.D., Marinissen J.C.Y., Didden W.A.M., Lebrink G., Brussaard L. Simulation of nitrogen mineralization in the below-ground food webs of two winter wheat fields. J.Appl. Ecol. 1993, 30:95-106.
23. Decaëns T. Macroecological patterns in soil communities. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 2010, 19:287-302.
24. Decaëns T., Dutoit T., Alard D. Earthworm community characteristics during afforestation of abandoned chalk grasslands (Upper Normandy, France). Eur. J. Soil Biol. 1997, 33:1-11.
25. Ekblad A., Boström B., Holm A., Comstedt D. Forest soil respiration rate and delta(13C) is regulated by recent above ground weather conditions. Oecologia 2005, 143:136-142.
26. Eriksson L., Johansson E., Kettaneh-Wold N., Trygg J., Wikström C., Wold S. Multi- and Megavariate Data Analysis: Advanced Applications and Method Extensions 2006, Umetrics, Umeå.
27. Faber J.H. Functional classification of soil fauna: a new approach. Oikos 1991, 62:110-117.
28. Freschet G.T., Aerts R., Cornelissen J.H.C. Multiple mechanisms for trait effects on litter decomposition: moving beyond home-field advantage with a new hypothesis. J.Ecol. 2012, 100:619-630.
29. Gholz H.L., Wedin D.A., Smitherman S.M., Harmon M.E., Parton W.J. Long-term dynamics of pine and hardwood litter in contrasting environments: toward a global model of decomposition. Global Change Biol. 2000, 6:751-765.
30. Giesselmann U.C., Martins K.G., Brandle M., Schadler M., Marques R., Brandi R. Lack of home-field advantage in the decomposition of leaf litter in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. Appl. Soil Ecol. 2011, 49:5-10.
31. Goldfarb K.C., Karaoz U., Hanson C.A., Santee C.A., Bradford M.A., Treseder K.K., Wallenstein M.D., Brodie E.L. Differential growth responses of soil bacterial taxa to carbon substrates of varying chemical recalcitrance. Front. Microbiol. 2011, 2:1-10.
32. Hansen R.A. Effects of habitat complexity and composition on a diverse litter microarthropod assemblage. Ecology 2000, 81:1120-1132.
33. Hättenschwiler S., Tiunov A.V., Scheu S. Biodiversity and litter decomposition interrestrial ecosystems. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 2005, 191-218.
34. Hobbie S.E., Reich P.B., Oleksyn J., Ogdahl M., Zytkowiak R., Hale C., Karolewski P. Tree species effects on decomposition and forest floor dynamics in a common garden. Ecology 2006, 87:2288-2297.
35. Hooper D.U., Bignell D.E., Brown V.K., Brussaard L., Dangerfield J.M., Wall D.H., Wardle D.A., Coleman D.C., Giller K.E., Lavelle P., van der Putten W.H., de Ruiter P.C., Rusek J., Silver W.L., Tiedje J.M., Wolters V. Interactions between aboveground and belowground biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems: patterns, mechanisms, and feedbacks. BioScience 2000, 50:1049.
36. Hooper D.U., Chapin F.S., Ewel J.J., Hector A., Inchausti P., Lavorel S., Lawton J.H., Lodge D.M., Loreau M., Naeem S., Schmid B., Setälä H., Symstad A.J., Vandermeer J., Wardle D.A. Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge. Ecol. Monogr. 2005, 75:3-35.
37. World Reference Base for Soil Resources 2006 2006, IUSS Working Group, W, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. second ed.
38. Jacob M., Viedenz K., Polle A., Thomas F.M. Leaf litter decomposition in temperate deciduous forest stands with a decreasing fraction of beech (Fagus sylvatica). Oecologia 2010, 164:1083-1094.
39. Jenkinson D.S., Powlson D.S. The effects of biocidal treatments on metabolism in soil. V. A method for measuring soil biomass. Soil Biol. Biochem. 1976, 8:209-213.
40. Lavelle P., Blanchart E., Martin A., Martin S., Spain A. Ahierarchical model for decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems: application to soils of the humid tropics. Biotropica 1993, 25:130-150.
41. Macfadyen A. Improved funnel-type extractors for soil arthropods. J.Anim. Ecol. 1961, 30:171-184.
42. Milcu A., Manning P. All size classes of soil fauna and litter quality control the acceleration of litter decay in its home environment. Oikos 2011, 120:1366-1370.
43. Milcu A., Partsch S., Langel R., Scheu S. The response of decomposers (earthworms, springtails and microorganisms) to variations in species and functional group diversity of plants. Oikos 2006, 112:513-524.
44. Moore J.C., Berlow E.L., Coleman D.C., de Ruiter P.C., Dong Q., Hastings A., Johnson N.C., McCann K.S., Melville K., Morin P.J., Nadelhoffer K., Rosemond A.D., Post D.M., Sabo J.L., Scow K.M., Vanni M.J., Wall D.H. Detritus, trophic dynamics and biodiversity. Ecol. Lett. 2004, 7:584-600.
45. Osono T. Ecology of ligninolytic fungi associated with leaf litter decomposition. Ecol. Res. 2007, 22:955-974.
46. Perez G., Decaëns T., Dujardin G., Akpa-Vinceslas M., Langlois E., Chauvat M. Response of collembolan assemblages to plant species successional gradient. Pedobiologia 2013, (in press).
47. Purtauf T., Dauber J., Wolters V. The response of carabids to landscape simplification differs between trophic groups. Oecologia 2005, 142:458-464.
48. R Development Core Team R: a Language and Environment for Statistical Computing 2008, R Fundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna.
49. Rakotomalala R. TANAGRA: un logiciel gratuit pour l'enseignement et la recherche. Actes de EGC'2005, RNTI-E-3 2005, vol. 2.
50. Ruf A. The long-term memory of soils: soil microarthropods in forest sites with different land use history. Abstracts, XIII International Colloquium on Soil Zoology 2000, 190. Icaris, Prague. J. Rusek (Ed.).
51. Rusek J. Biodiversity of Collembola and their functional role in the ecosystem. Biodivers. Conserv. 1998, 7:1207-1219.
52. Salamon J.A., Schaefer M., Alphei J., Schmid B., Scheu S. Effects of plant diversity on Collembola in an experimental grassland ecosystem. Oikos 2004, 106:51-60.
53. Scheu S., Schulz E. Secondary succession, soil formation and development of a diverse community of oribatids and saprophagous soil macro-invertebrates. Biodivers. Conserv. 1996, 5:235-250.
54. St John M.G., Orwin K.H., Dickie I.A. No 'home' versus 'away' effects of decomposition found in a grassland-forest reciprocal litter transplant study. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2011, 43:1482-1489.
55. Strickland M.S., Osburn E., Lauber C., Fierer N., Bradford M.A. Litter quality is in the eye of the beholder: initial decomposition rates as a function of inoculum characteristics. Funct. Ecol. 2009, 23:627-636.
56. Swift M.J., Heal O.W., Anderson J.M. Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems 1979, Blackwell Scientific, Oxford.
57. Tenenhaus M. La Régression PLS: Théorie et Pratique 1998, Technip, Paris.
58. Trap J., Bureau F., Perez G., Aubert M. PLS-regressions highlight litter quality as the major predictor of humus form shift along forest maturation. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2013, 57:969-971.
59. van der Heijden M.G.A., Bardgett R.D., van Straalen N.M. The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. Ecol. Lett. 2008, 11:296-310.
60. Van Soest P.J. Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant 1994, Cornell University Press, Ithaca. second ed.
61. Verhoef H.A., Brussaard L. Decomposition and nitrogen mineralization in natural and agroecosystems - the contribution of soil animals. Biogeochemistry 1990, 11:175-211.
62. Vivanco L., Austin A.T. Tree species identity alters forest litter decomposition through long-term plant and soil interactions in Patagonia, Argentina. J.Ecol. 2008, 96:727-736.
63. Wallenstein M.D., Haddix M.L., Ayres E., Steltzer H., Magrini-Bair K.A., Paul E.A. Litter chemistry changes more rapidly when decomposed at home but converges during decomposition-transformation. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2013, 57:311-319.
64. Wardle D.A., Bardgett R.D., Klironomos J.N., Setala H., van der Putten W.H., Wall D.H. Ecological linkages between aboveground and belowground biota. Science 2004, 304:1629-1633.
65. Wardle D.A., Bardgett R.D., Walker L.R., Bonner K.I. Among- and within-species variation in plant litter decomposition in contrasting long-term chronosequences. Funct. Ecol. 2009, 23:442-453.
66. Wardle D.A., Bonner K.I., Nicholson K.S. Biodiversity and plant litter: experimental evidence which does not support the view that enhanced species richness improves ecosystem function. Oikos 1997, 79:247-258.
67. Wardle D.A., Yeates G.W., Barker G.M., Bonner K.I. The influence of plant litter diversity on decomposer abundance and diversity. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2006, 38:1052-1062.
68. Wickings K., Stuart Grandy A., Reed S., Cleveland C. Management intensity alters decomposition via biological pathways. Biogeochemistry 2011, 104:365-379.
69. Wilkinson D.M. Fragments of an entangled bank: do ecologists study most of ecology?. Oikos 1998, 82:393-394.
70. Wold S. Cross-validatory estimation of the number of components in factor and principal components models. Technometrics 1978, 20:397-405.
71. Zaitsev A.S., Chauvat M., Pflug A., Wolters V. Oribatid mite diversity and community dynamics in a spruce chronosequence. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2002, 34:1919-1927.
72. Zaitsev A.S., Wolters V., Waldhardt R., Dauber J. Long-term succession of oribatid mites after conversion of croplands to grasslands. Appl. Soil Ecol. 2006, 34:230-239.
73. Zak D.R., Holmes W.E., White D.C., Peacock A.D., Tilman D. Plant diversity, soil microbial communities, and ecosystem function: are there any links?. Ecology 2003, 84:2042-2050.