ArticleOecologia2013
Leaf litter quality drives litter mixing effects through complementary resource use among detritivores.
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- Warming and leaf litter functional diversity, not litter quality, drive decomposition in a freshwater ecosystem.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Effects of two measures of riparian plant biodiversity on litter decomposition and associated processes in stream microcosms.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Drought conditions alter litter decomposition and nutrient release of litter types in an agroforestry system of China.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Tree litter functional diversity and nitrogen concentration enhance litter decomposition via changes in earthworm communities.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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- Nutrient scarcity strengthens soil fauna control over leaf litter decomposition in tropical rainforests.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Nonadditive effects of consumption in an intertidal macroinvertebrate community are independent of food availability but driven by complementarity effects.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Plant litter functional diversity effects on litter mass loss depend on the macro-detritivore community.Pedobiologia · 2017Article
- Larger phylogenetic distances in litter mixtures: lower microbial biomass and higher C/N ratios but equal mass loss.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands.The New phytologist · 2015Article
- C, N and P fertilization in an Amazonian rainforest supports stoichiometric dissimilarity as a driver of litter diversity effects on decomposition.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
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Abstract
To comprehend the potential consequences of biodiversity loss on the leaf litter decomposition process, a better understanding of its underlying mechanisms is necessary. Here, we hypothesize that positive litter mixture effects occur via complementary resource use, when litter species complement each other in terms of resource quality for detritivores. To investigate this, monocultures and mixtures of two leaf litter species varying in quality were allowed to decompose with and without a single macro-detritivore species (the terrestrial woodlice Oniscus asellus). Resource quality of the mixture was assessed by the mean concentration, the dissimilarity in absolute and relative concentrations, and the covariance between nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and calcium (Ca) supply. Our results clearly show that litter mixing effects were driven by differences in their resource quality for detritivores. In particular, complementary supply of N and P was a major driver of litter mixing effects. Interestingly, litter mixing effects caused by the addition of woodlice were predominantly driven by N dissimilarity, whereas in their absence, increased P concentration was the main driver of litter mixing effects. These results show that ultimately, litter diversity effects on decomposition may be driven by complementary resource use of the whole decomposer community (i.e., microbes and macro-detritivores).
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