ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
Substrate and climate determine terrestrial litter decomposition.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Topography Dependence of Terrestrial Litter-Derived Soil Respiration.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Interactive roles of mineralogy, microbial community composition and litter quality in regulating organic matter turnover.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Climate dominance gives way to litter chemistry during long-term Scots pine needle decomposition along a boreal-to-temperate climate gradient.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Research progress on the interaction between forest carbon sequestration and climate change.Carbon balance and management · 2026Review
- Litter decomposition regulated by stand ECM dominance but not litter mycorrhizal type in a subtropical mountainous forest.Tree physiology · 2026Article
- Nutrient dynamics of decomposing litter and their effects on subsequent mass loss and nutrient release in a subtropical forest.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Relative Contributions of Soil and Litter Properties to Soil Microbial Community Variations During the Restoration of Larch Plantations to Mixed Forests.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Geographic Origin and Functional Group Type Affect the Decomposability of Peatland Plant Litter Through Biochemical Properties.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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Abstract
Litter decomposition is a fundamental biogeochemical process for carbon flux and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, yet the global variation in decomposition rates and their covariations with climate and substrate are not fully understood. Here, we synthesized a global dataset of 6,733 independent observations across six continents to illustrate the climatic and substrate controls over litter decomposition. The average decomposition rates of various litter types ranged from 0.74 to 4.01 y
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