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SUBMITTER: Lensing JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1622852 | biostudies-other | 2006 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lensing Janet R JR Wise David H DH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20061005 42
Changes in rainfall predicted to occur with global climate change will likely alter rates of leaf-litter decomposition through direct effects on primary decomposers. In a field experiment replicated at two sites, we show that altered rainfall may also change how cascading trophic interactions initiated by arthropod predators in the leaf litter indirectly influence litter decomposition. On the drier site there was no interaction between rainfall and the indirect effect of predators on decompositi ...[more]