Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

被引：1687

作者：

Cornwell, William K. ^{[1
]}

Cornelissen, Johannes H. C. ^{[1
]}

Amatangelo, Kathryn ^{[2
]}

Dorrepaal, Ellen ^{[1
]}

Eviner, Valerie T. ^{[3
]}

Godoy, Oscar ^{[4
]}

Hobbie, Sarah E. ^{[5
]}

Hoorens, Bart ^{[1
]}

Kurokawa, Hiroko ^{[6
,7
]}

Perez-Harguindeguy, Natalia ^{[8
]}

Quested, Helen M. ^{[9
]}

Santiago, Louis S. ^{[10
]}

Wardle, David A. ^{[6
,11
]}

Wright, Ian J. ^{[12
]}

Aerts, Rien ^{[1
]}

Allison, Steven D. ^{[13
,14
]}

van Bodegom, Peter ^{[1
]}

Brovkin, Victor ^{[15
]}

Chatain, Alex ^{[16
]}

Callaghan, Terry V. ^{[17
,18
]}

Diaz, Sandra ^{[7
]}

Garnier, Eric ^{[19
]}

Gurvich, Diego E. ^{[8
]}

Kazakou, Elena ^{[19
]}

Klein, Julia A. ^{[20
]}

Read, Jenny ^{[16
]}

Reich, Peter B. ^{[21
]}

Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A. ^{[1
,22
]}

Victoria Vaieretti, M. ^{[8
]}

Westoby, Mark ^{[12
]}

机构：

[1] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Fac Earth & Life Sci, Dept Syst Ecol, Inst Ecol Sci, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands

[2] Stanford Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

[3] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Plant Sci, Davis, CA 95616 USA

[4] Univ Alcala de Henares, Fac Ciencias, Dept Ecol, Madrid, Spain

[5] Univ Minnesota, Dept Ecol Evolut & Behav, St Paul, MN 55108 USA

[6] Landcare Res, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand

[7] Yokohama Natl Univ, Grad Sch Environm & Informat Sci, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2408501, Japan

[8] Univ Nacl Cordoba, CONICET, FCEFyN, Inst Multidisciplinario Biol Vegetal, RA-5000 Cordoba, Argentina

[9] Stockholm Univ, Dept Bot, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[10] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA

[11] Swedish Univ Agr Sci, Dept Forest Vegetat Ecol, Fac Forestry, S-90183 Umea, Sweden

[12] Macquarie Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

[13] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

[14] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Earth Syst Sci, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

[15] Potsdam Inst Climate Impact Res, Climate Syst Res Dept, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany

[16] Monash Univ, Sch Biol Sci, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia

[17] Royal Swedish Acad Sci, Abisko Res Stn, S-98107 Abisko, Sweden

[18] Western Bank, Dept Anim & Plant Sci, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England

[19] CNRS, Ctr Ecol Fonct & Evolut, UMR 5175, F-34293 Montpellier 5, France

[20] Colorado State Univ, Dept Forest Rangeland & Watershed Stewardship, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA

[21] Univ Minnesota, Dept Forest Resources, St Paul, MN 55108 USA

[22] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Fac Biol, Dept Geobot, Moscow, Russia

来源：

ECOLOGY LETTERS | 2008年 / 11卷 / 10期

关键词：

carbon cycling; decomposition; leaf economic spectrum; leaf traits; meta-analysis;

D O I：

10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01219.x

中图分类号：

Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];

学科分类号：

071012 ; 0713 ;

摘要：

Worldwide decomposition rates depend both on climate and the legacy of plant functional traits as litter quality. To quantify the degree to which functional differentiation among species affects their litter decomposition rates, we brought together leaf trait and litter mass loss data for 818 species from 66 decomposition experiments on six continents. We show that: (i) the magnitude of species-driven differences is much larger than previously thought and greater than climate-driven variation; (ii) the decomposability of a species' litter is consistently correlated with that species' ecological strategy within different ecosystems globally, representing a new connection between whole plant carbon strategy and biogeochemical cycling. This connection between plant strategies and decomposability is crucial for both understanding vegetation-soil feedbacks, and for improving forecasts of the global carbon cycle.

引用

页码：1065 / 1071

页数：7

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