Effects of litter manipulation on litter decomposition in a successional gradients of tropical forests in southern China.

Global changes such as increasing CO2, rising temperature, and land-use change are likely to drive shifts in litter inputs to forest floors, but the effects of such changes on litter decomposition remain largely unknown. We initiated a litter manipulation experiment to test the response of litter de...

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Main Authors: Hao Chen, Geshere A Gurmesa, Lei Liu, Tao Zhang, Shenglei Fu, Zhanfeng Liu, Shaofeng Dong, Chuan Ma, Jiangming Mo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4047082?pdf=render