Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

William K. Cornwell; Johannes H. C. Cornelissen; Kathryn Amatangelo; Ellen Dorrepaal; Valerie T. Eviner; Oscar Godoy; Sarah E. Hobbie; Bart Hoorens; Hiroko Kurokawa; Natalia Perez-Harguindeguy; Helen M. Quested; Louis S. Santiago; David A. Wardle; Ian J. Wright; Rien Aerts; Steven D. Allison; Peter van Bodegom; Victor Brovkin; Alex Chatain; Terry V. Callaghan; Sandra Diaz; Eric Garnier; Diego E. Gurvich; Elena Kazakou; Julia A. Klein; Jenny Read; Peter B. Reich; Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia; M. Victoria Vaieretti; Mark Westoby

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Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

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Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

William K. Cornwell, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Kathryn Amatangelo, Ellen Dorrepaal, Valerie T. Eviner, Oscar Godoy, Sarah E. Hobbie, Bart Hoorens, Hiroko Kurokawa, Natalia Perez-Harguindeguy, …

Ecology letters, Vol.11(10), pp.1065-1071

10/2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01219.x

PMID: 18627410

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Ecology

Environmental Sciences & Ecology

Life Sciences & Biomedicine

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Worldwide decomposition rates depend both on climate and the legacy of plant functional traits as litter quality. To quantify the degree to which functional differentiation among species affects their litter decomposition rates, we brought together leaf trait and litter mass loss data for 818 species from 66 decomposition experiments on six continents. We show that: (i) the magnitude of species-driven differences is much larger than previously thought and greater than climate-driven variation; (ii) the decomposability of a species' litter is consistently correlated with that species' ecological strategy within different ecosystems globally, representing a new connection between whole plant carbon strategy and biogeochemical cycling. This connection between plant strategies and decomposability is crucial for both understanding vegetation-soil feedbacks, and for improving forecasts of the global carbon cycle.

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Titre: Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide
Créateurs - sans rôle: William K. Cornwell - Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Fac Earth & Life Sci, Dept Syst Ecol, Inst Ecol Sci, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen - University of Amsterdam
Kathryn Amatangelo - Stanford Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
Ellen Dorrepaal - Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Fac Earth & Life Sci, Dept Syst Ecol, Inst Ecol Sci, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
Valerie T. Eviner - Univ Calif Davis, Dept Plant Sci, Davis, CA 95616 USA
Oscar Godoy - Univ Alcala de Henares, Fac Ciencias, Dept Ecol, Madrid, Spain
Sarah E. Hobbie - University of Minnesota
Bart Hoorens - Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Fac Earth & Life Sci, Dept Syst Ecol, Inst Ecol Sci, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hiroko Kurokawa - Landcare Res, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand
Natalia Perez-Harguindeguy - Univ Nacl Cordoba, CONICET, FCEFyN, Inst Multidisciplinario Biol Vegetal, RA-5000 Cordoba, Argentina
Helen M. Quested - Stockholm University
Louis S. Santiago - Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
David A. Wardle - Landcare Res, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand
Ian J. Wright - Macquarie Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Rien Aerts - University of Amsterdam
Steven D. Allison - Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
Peter van Bodegom - Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Fac Earth & Life Sci, Dept Syst Ecol, Inst Ecol Sci, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
Victor Brovkin - Potsdam Inst Climate Impact Res, Climate Syst Res Dept, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany
Alex Chatain - Monash University
Terry V. Callaghan - Royal Swedish Acad Sci, Abisko Res Stn, S-98107 Abisko, Sweden
Sandra Diaz - Yokohama Natl Univ, Grad Sch Environm & Informat Sci, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2408501, Japan
Eric Garnier - CNRS, Ctr Ecol Fonct & Evolut, UMR 5175, F-34293 Montpellier 5, France
Diego E. Gurvich - Univ Nacl Cordoba, CONICET, FCEFyN, Inst Multidisciplinario Biol Vegetal, RA-5000 Cordoba, Argentina
Elena Kazakou - CNRS, Ctr Ecol Fonct & Evolut, UMR 5175, F-34293 Montpellier 5, France
Julia A. Klein - Colorado State University
Jenny Read - Monash Univ, Sch Biol Sci, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia
Peter B. Reich - University of Minnesota
Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia - University of Amsterdam
M. Victoria Vaieretti - Univ Nacl Cordoba, CONICET, FCEFyN, Inst Multidisciplinario Biol Vegetal, RA-5000 Cordoba, Argentina
Mark Westoby - Macquarie Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Détails de publication: Ecology letters, Vol.11(10), pp.1065-1071
Éditeur: Wiley
Nombre de pages: 7
Note de subvention: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
Identifiants: 99136041509311
Unité académique: Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE
Langue: English
Type de ressource: Journal article