Leaf litter decomposition rates increase with rising mean annual temperature in Hawaiian tropical montane wet forests

PeerJ

Volumn 2014, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Bothwell, Lori D ^a   Selmants, Paul C ^b   Giardina, Christian P ^c   Litton, Creighton M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Decomposition; Elevation gradient; Hawaii; Leaf litter; Mean annual temperature (MAT); Metrosideros polymorpha; Nitrogen cycling; Tropical wet forest

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; NYLON; RAIN;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST; LATITUDE; LEAF LITTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA;

EID: 84916936209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.685     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Adair EC, Hobbie SE, Hobbie RK. 2010. Single-pool exponential decomposition models: potential pitfalls in their use in ecological studies. Ecology 91:1225-1236 DOI 10.1890/09-0430.1.
2. Adair EC, Parton WJ, del Grosso SJ, Silver WL, Harmon ME, Hall SA, Burke IC, Hart SC. 2008. Simple three-pool model accurately describes patterns of long-term litter decomposition in diverse climates. Global Change Biology 14:2636-2660.
3. Aerts R. 1997. Climate, leaf litter chemistry and leaf litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems: a triangular relationship. Oikos 79:439-449 DOI 10.2307/3546886.
4. Bradley RS, Keimig FT, Diaz HF. 2004. Projected temperature changes along the American cordillera and the planned GCOS network. Geophysical Research Letters 31:L16210 DOI 10.1029/2004GL020229.
5. Cao G, Giambelluca TW, Stevens DE, Schroeder TA. 2007. Inversion variability in the Hawaiian trade wind regime. Journal of Climate 20:1145-1160 DOI 10.1175/JCLI4033.1.
6. Cusack DF, Chou WW, Yang WH, Harmon ME, Silver WL, The LIDET Team. 2009. Controls on long-term root and leaf litter decomposition in neotropical forests. Global Change Biology 15:1339-1355 DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01781.x.
7. Gholz HL,Wedin DA, Smitherman SM, Harmon ME, Parton WJ. 2000. Long-term dynamics of pine and hardwood litter in contrasting environments: toward a global model of decomposition. Global Change Biology 6:751-765 DOI 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2000.00349.x.
8. Giambelluca TW, Chen Q, Frazier AG, Price JP, Chen Y-L, Chu P-S, Eischeid JK, Delparte DM. 2013 Online rainfall atlas of Hawai'i. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 94:313-316 DOI 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00228.1.
9. Giambelluca TW, Diaz HF, Luke MSA. 2008. Secular temperature changes in Hawai'i. Geophysical Research Letters 35:L12702 DOI 10.1029/2008GL034377.
10. Giambelluca TW, Shuai X, Barnes ML, Aliss RJ, Longman RJ,Miura T, Chen Q, Frazier AG, Mudd RG, Cuo L, Businger AD. 2014. Evapotranspiration of Hawai'i. Final report submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Honolulu District, and the Commission onWater Resource Management, State of Hawaii. Available at http://evapotranspiration.geography.hawaii.edu/.
11. 2 efflux are explained by increased below-ground carbon flux. Nature Climate Change 4:822-827 DOI 10.1038/nclimate2322.
12. Hobbie SE, Vitousek PM. 2000. Nutrient limitation of decomposition in Hawaiian forests. Ecology 81:1867-1877 DOI 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1867:NLODIH]2.0.CO;2.
13. Hyvönen R, Ågren GI, Dalias P. 2005. Analysing temperature response of decomposition of organic matter. Global Change Biology 11:770-778 DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00947.x.
14. Iwashita DK, Litton CM, Giardina CP. 2013. Coarse woody debris carbon storage across a mean annual temperature gradient in tropical montane wet forest. Forest Ecology and Management 291:336-343 DOI 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.11.043.
15. Kätterer T, Reichstein M, Andrén O, Lomander A. 1998. Temperature dependence of organic matter decomposition: a critical review using literature data analyzed with different models. Biology and Fertility of Soils 27:258-262 DOI 10.1007/s003740050430.
16. Litton CM, Giardina CP, Albano JK, Long MS, Asner GP. 2011. The magnitude and variability of soil-surface CO2 efflux increase with mean annual temperature in Hawaiian tropical montane wet forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43:2315-2323 DOI 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.08.004.
17. Luo Y, Su B, CurrieWS, Dukes JS, Finzi AC, Hartwig U, Hungate BA,McMurtrie RE, Oren R, Parton WJ, Pataki DE, Shaw R, Zak DR, Field CB. 2004. Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem responses to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. BioScience 54:731-739 DOI 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0731:PNLOER]2.0.CO;2.
18. Malhi Y, Silman M, Salinas N, Bush M,Meir P, Saatchi S. 2010. Introduction: elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and global change research. Global Change Biology 16:3171-3175 DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02323.x.
19. Olson JS. 2007. Energy storage and the balance of producers and decomposers in ecological systems. Ecology 44:322-331 DOI 10.2307/1932179.
20. Perry DA, Oren R, Hart SC. 2008. Forest ecosystems. second edition. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
21. R Core Team. 2014. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Available at http://www.R-project.org/.
22. ReinersWA. 1968. Carbon dioxide evolution from the floor of three Minnesota forests. Ecology 49:471-483 DOI 10.2307/1934114.
23. Rustad LE, Campbell JL,Marion GM, Norby RJ,Mitchell MJ, Hartley AE, Cornelissen JHC, Gurevitch J, GCTE-NEWS. 2001. A meta-analysis of the response of soil respiration, net nitrogen mineralization, and aboveground plant growth to experimental ecosystem warming. Oecologia 126:543-562 DOI 10.1007/s004420000544.
24. Salinas N,Malhi Y,Meir P, Silman M, Roman Cuesta R, Huaman J, Salinas D, Huaman V, Gibaja A,Mamani M, Farfan F. 2011. The sensitivity of tropical leaf litter decomposition to temperature: results from a large-scale leaf translocation experiment along an elevation gradient in Peruvian forests. New Phytologist 189:967-977 DOI 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03521.x.
25. Schuur EAG. 2001. The effect of water on decomposition dynamics in mesic to wet Hawaiian montane forests. Ecosystems 4:259-273 DOI 10.1007/s10021-001-0008-1.
26. Scowcroft P, Turner DR, Vitousek PM. 2008. Decomposition of Metrosideros polymorpha leaf litter along elevational gradients in Hawaii. Global Change Biology 6:73-85 DOI 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2000.00282.x.
27. Selmants PC, Litton CM, Giardina CP, Asner GP. 2014. Ecosystem carbon storage does not vary with mean annual temperature in Hawaiian tropical montane wet forests. Global Change Biology 20:2927-2937 DOI 10.1111/gcb.12636.
28. Waring BG. 2012. A meta-analysis of climatic and chemical controls on leaf litter decay rates in tropical forests. Ecosystems 15:999-1009 DOI 10.1007/s10021-012-9561-z.
29. Wieder WR, Cleveland CC, Townsend AR. 2009. Controls over leaf litter decomposition in wet tropical forests. Ecology 90:3333-3341 DOI 10.1890/08-2294.1.
30. Wolfe EW,Morris J. 1996. Geologic map of the Island of Hawaii. Reston, VA: U.S. Geological Survey.
31. Wood TE, Cavaleri MA, Reed SC. 2012. Tropical forest carbon balance in a warmer world: a critical review spanning microbial- to ecosystem-scale processes. Biological Reviews 87:912-927 DOI 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00232.x.
32. Zhou T, Shi P, Hui D, Luo Y. 2009. Global pattern of temperature sensitivity of soil heterotrophic respiration (Q 10) and its implications for carbon-climate feedback. Journal of Geophysical Research 114:G02016 DOI 10.1029/2008JG000850.