Dear all,
We are doing a study comparing aquatic vs. terrestrial litter decomposition in a tropical rainforest and I would like to review studies that conducted litter decomposition studies, detritivorous studies, geochemical studies in both ecosystems at the same time. Litterature comparing both system functioning appears weak but I ask all if you have some papers or litterature about this topic tto recommend to get the maximum of studies.
Thank you in advance for your kind help,
Best regards,
Brian Four
Check Manuel Graca and Tim Moulton works.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel_Graca
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tim_Moulton2
Bonjour
you might wish to contact my colleague Frederic Hervant, who is still involved in this kind of studied
Article Effect of leaf litter characteristics on leaf conditioning a...
My attached paper examined decomposition in swamps at above ground, ground surface, and below ground (fresh water) levels and should answer your questions :)
Dear all,
Thank you for these answers, some were very usefull for this work !
I still looking for supplemental studies comparing both systems ;)
Thank you in advance.
Brian
The LTER at Luquillo, Puerto Rico has been resarching litter decomp in headwater streams as well as forest floor, by diferent researchers. They have a publications page, and here is one example:
Ocasio-Torres, M. E, T. A Crowl, and A. M Sabat. 2015. “Effects Of The Presence Of A Predatory fish And The Phenotype Of Its Prey (A Shredding Shrimp) On Leaf Litter Decomposition”. Freshwater Biology 60: 2286-2296.
These might be useful:
Handa, I.T., Aerts, R., Berendse, F., Berg, M.P., Bruder, A., Butenschoen, O., Chauvet, E., Gessner, M.O., Jabiol, J., Makkonen, M., McKie, B.J., Malmqvist, B., Peeters, E.T.H.M., Scheu, S., Schmid, B., van Ruijven, J., Vos, V.C.A., Ha€ttenschwiler, S., 2014. Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes. Nature 509, 218e221.
Tiegs et al., Sci. Adv. 2019;5:eaav0486 9 January 2019
Hi Felix Baerlocher,
Thank you for these papers. We had already published a "mini" review about this topic in our paper: Traits or habitat? Disentangling predictors of leaf‐litter decomposition in Amazonian soils and streams published in Ecosphere (2019; Appendix S1).
Yours sincerely,
Brian Four
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