Impact of species diversity, stand age and environmental factors on leaf litter decomposition in subtropical forests in China

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• 作者：Stefan Trogisch ; Jin-Sheng He ; Andy Hector ; Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
• 关键词：BEF ; China ; Forest biodiversity ; Non ; additive mixture effects ; Nitrogen ; Secondary forest succession ; Subtropical broad ; leaved forest
• 刊名：Plant and Soil
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：400
• 期：1-2
• 页码：337-350
• 全文大小：854 KB
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• 作者单位：Stefan Trogisch (1) (2) (3) (6)
  Jin-Sheng He (4)
  Andy Hector (5)
  Michael Scherer-Lorenzen (6)
  
  1. Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, D-06108, Halle, Germany
  2. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany
  3. Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
  6. Faculty of Biology, Geobotany, University of Freiburg, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany
  4. Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
  5. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Plant Sciences
  Soil Science and Conservation
  Plant Physiology
  Ecology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-5036

文摘

Background and aims Tree diversity is considered to influence decomposition either by changing environmental conditions or by non-additive litter mixture effects. Thus, we examined the influence of tree species richness, forest age and environmental factors on single-species decomposition, and tested the hypothesis that high litter species diversity induces predominantly positive non-additive mixture effects on decomposition processes.