Signature wood modifications reveal decomposer community history.

Correlating plant litter decay rates with initial tissue traits (e.g. C, N contents) is common practice, but in woody litter, predictive relationships are often weak. Variability in predicting wood decomposition is partially due to territorial competition among fungal decomposers that, in turn, have...

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Main Authors: Jonathan S Schilling, Justin T Kaffenberger, Feng Jin Liew, Zewei Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4374725?pdf=render