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The role of forest age as a potential driver of intraspecific variation in leaf litter quality, that is a key plant trait determining ecosystem functioning, has largely been neglected. Using a set of fully replicated pure beech (Fagus sylvatica) forest stands differing in age (15, 65, 95 and 130years), we quantified the forest stand age related variability of twelve leaf litter quality traits. Litter...