Low-to-moderate nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations accelerate microbially driven litter breakdown rates

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 856-865

  Kominoski, John S ^a,d   D rosemond, A M Y ^a   Benstead, Jonathan P ^b   Gulis, Vladislav ^c   C maerz, John ^a   Manning, David W P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c Department of Public Health   (United States)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon processing; Detritus; Ecological stoichiometry; Ecosystem function; Litter breakdown; Nutrient enrichment; Organic matter quality; Streams

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECIDUOUS TREE; DICOTYLEDON; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEAF LITTER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; STREAM CHANNEL;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON MAXIMUM;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; FUNGI; NITROGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOSPHORUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84978620991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1113.1     Document Type: Article

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