Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: the role of functional traits within and across plant organs
- Pietsch, K.
- Ogle, K.
- Cornelissen, J.
- Cornwell, W.
- Bönisch, G.
- Craine, J.
- Jackson, B.
- Kattge, J.
- Peltzer, D.
- Penuelas, J.
- Reich, P.
- Wardle, D.
- Weedon, J.
- Wright, I.
- Zanne, A.
- Wirth, C.
Publication date
January 2014
DOIAbstract
Recent meta-analyses have revealed that functional traits and evolutionary history influence dead wood and leaf litter decay rates, but little is known about how these decay rates co-vary over a wide range of species and ecosystems. We provide a first global scale test of hypotheses relating decomposition rates of different tissue types to their functional traits across organs
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