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Conceptual frameworks relating plant traits to ecosystem processes such as organic matter dynamics are progressively moving from a leaf‐centred to a whole‐plant perspective. Through the use of meta‐analysis and global literature data, we quantified the relative roles of litters from above‐ and below‐ground plant organs in ecosystem labile organic matter dynamics.
We found that decomposition rates...
1. Evidence is growing that leaf litter generally decomposes faster than expected in its environment of origin, owing to specialization of litter and topsoil decomposer communities to break down litter encountered most often. Nevertheless, this home‐field advantage (HFA) in decomposition is inconsistently supported by experimental data and fails to account for situations where contrasting qualities...
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