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SUBMITTER: Kou L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7402676 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kou Liang L Jiang Lei L Hättenschwiler Stephan S Zhang Miaomiao M Niu Shuli S Fu Xiaoli X Dai Xiaoqin X Yan Han H Li Shenggong S Wang Huimin H
eLife 20200626
Plant species diversity affects carbon and nutrient cycling during litter decomposition, yet the generality of the direction of this effect and its magnitude remains uncertain. With a meta-analysis including 65 field studies across the Earth's major forest ecosystems, we show here that decomposition was faster when litter was composed of more than one species. These positive biodiversity effects were mostly driven by temperate forests but were more variable in other forests. Litter mixture effec ...[more]