Evolutionary Position and Leaf Toughness Control Chemical Transformation of Litter, and Drought Reinforces This Control: Evidence from a Common Garden Experiment across 48 Species.

Plant leaf litter is an important source of soil chemicals that are essential for the ecosystem and changes in leaf litter chemical traits during decomposition will determine the availability of multiple chemical elements recycling in the ecosystem. However, it is unclear whether the changes in litt...

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Main Authors: Xu Pan, Yao-Bin Song, Can Jiang, Guo-Fang Liu, Xue-Hua Ye, Xiu-Fang Xie, Yu-Kun Hu, Wei-Wei Zhao, Lijuan Cui, Johannes H C Cornelissen, Ming Dong, Andreas Prinzing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4648592?pdf=render