Regional contingencies in the relationship between aboveground biomass and litter in the world's grasslands.

Based on regional-scale studies, aboveground production and litter decomposition are thought to positively covary, because they are driven by shared biotic and climatic factors. Until now we have been unable to test whether production and decomposition are generally coupled across climatically dissi...

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Main Authors: Lydia R O'Halloran, Elizabeth T Borer, Eric W Seabloom, Andrew S MacDougall, Elsa E Cleland, Rebecca L McCulley, Sarah Hobbie, W Stan Harpole, Nicole M DeCrappeo, Chengjin Chu, Jonathan D Bakker, Kendi F Davies, Guozhen Du, Jennifer Firn, Nicole Hagenah, Kirsten S Hofmockel, Johannes M H Knops, Wei Li, Brett A Melbourne, John W Morgan, John L Orrock, Suzanne M Prober, Carly J Stevens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3566150?pdf=render