Home-Field Advantage of Litter Decomposition Faded 8 Years after Spruce Forest Clearcutting in Western Germany

Home-field advantage (HFA) encompasses all the processes leading to faster litter decomposition in the ‘home’ environment compared to that of ‘away’ environments. To determine the occurrence of HFA in a forest and adjacent clear-cut, we set up a reciprocal litter decomposition experiment within the...

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Published in:Soil Systems
Main Authors: Liyan Zhuang, Andrea Schnepf, Kirsten Unger, Ziyi Liang, Roland Bol
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-03-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2571-8789/6/1/26