No ‘home’ versus ‘away’ effects of decomposition found in a grassland–forest reciprocal litter transplant study
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Summary
This work tested whether the HFA of litter decomposition is driven by decomposer communities being specialized at decomposing litter in their home habitat, by reciprocally transplanting litter from grassland to early-successional forest, and found an overall disadvantage for at-home decomposition despite large differences in litter quality between the two habitats.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2011-07-01
- Cited by
- 110
- References
- 66
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Keywords
Decomposer, Litter, Plant litter, Grassland, Habitat
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