A meta-analysis on decomposition quantifies afterlife effects of plant diversity as a global change driver

There is evidence that reducing plant litter diversity may slow litter decomposition rate. Here, Mori and colleagues perform a global meta-analysis of litter-bag studies to show that mixed-species litter assemblages decompose faster than monospecific assemblages, with a magnitude comparable to the p...

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Main Authors: Akira S. Mori, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Saori Fujii, Kei-ichi Okada, Forest Isbell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18296-w