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    Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization

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    Date
    2024-05-01
    Author
    Sarneel, Judith M.
    Hefting, Mariet M.
    Sandén, Taru
    van den Hoogen, Johan
    Routh, Devin
    Adhikari, Bhupendra S.
    Alatalo, Juha M.
    Aleksanyan, Alla
    Althuizen, Inge H.J.
    Alsafran, Mohammed H.S.A.
    Atkins, Jeff W.
    Augusto, Laurent
    Aurela, Mika
    Azarov, Aleksej V.
    Barrio, Isabel C.
    Beier, Claus
    Bejarano, María D.
    Benham, Sue E.
    Berg, Björn
    Bezler, Nadezhda V.
    Björnsdóttir, Katrín
    Bolinder, Martin A.
    Carbognani, Michele
    Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto
    Chelli, Stefano
    Chistotin, Maxim V.
    Christiansen, Casper T.
    Courtois, Pascal
    Crowther, Thomas W.
    Dechoum, Michele S.
    Djukic, Ika
    Duddigan, Sarah
    Egerton-Warburton, Louise M.
    Fanin, Nicolas
    Fantappiè, Maria
    Fares, Silvano
    Fernandes, Geraldo W.
    Filippova, Nina V.
    Fliessbach, Andreas
    Fuentes, David
    Godoy, Roberto
    Grünwald, Thomas
    Guzmán, Gema
    Hawes, Joseph E.
    He, Yue
    Hero, Jean Marc
    Hess, Laura L.
    Hogendoorn, Katja
    Høye, Toke T.
    Jans, Wilma W.P.
    Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S.
    Keller, Sabina
    Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian
    Kuz'menko, Natalya N.
    Larsen, Klaus S.
    Laudon, Hjalmar
    Lembrechts, Jonas J.
    Li, Junhui
    Limousin, Jean Marc
    Lukin, Sergey M.
    Marques, Renato
    Marín, César
    McDaniel, Marshall D.
    Meek, Qi
    Merzlaya, Genrietta E.
    Michelsen, Anders
    Montagnani, Leonardo
    Mueller, Peter
    Murugan, Rajasekaran
    Myers-Smith, Isla H.
    Nolte, Stefanie
    Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl
    Okafor, Bernard N.
    Okorkov, Vladimir V.
    Onipchenko, Vladimir G.
    Orozco, María C.
    Parkhurst, Tina
    Peres, Carlos A.
    Petit Bon, Matteo
    Petraglia, Alessandro
    Pingel, Martin
    Rebmann, Corinna
    Scheffers, Brett R.
    Schmidt, Inger
    Scholes, Mary C.
    Sheffer, Efrat
    Shevtsova, Lyudmila K.
    Smith, Stuart W.
    Sofo, Adriano
    Stevenson, Pablo R.
    Strouhalová, Barbora
    Sundsdal, Anders
    Sühs, Rafael B.
    Tamene, Gebretsadik
    Thomas, Haydn J.D.
    Tolunay, Duygu
    Tomaselli, Marcello
    Tresch, Simon
    Tucker, Dominique L.
    Ulyshen, Michael D.
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    Abstract
    The breakdown of plant material fuels soil functioning and biodiversity. Currently, process understanding of global decomposition patterns and the drivers of such patterns are hampered by the lack of coherent large-scale datasets. We buried 36,000 individual litterbags (tea bags) worldwide and found an overall negative correlation between initial mass-loss rates and stabilization factors of plant-derived carbon, using the Tea Bag Index (TBI). The stabilization factor quantifies the degree to which easy-to-degrade components accumulate during early-stage decomposition (e.g. by environmental limitations). However, agriculture and an interaction between moisture and temperature led to a decoupling between initial mass-loss rates and stabilization, notably in colder locations. Using TBI improved mass-loss estimates of natural litter compared to models that ignored stabilization. Ignoring the transformation of dead plant material to more recalcitrant substances during early-stage decomposition, and the environmental control of this transformation, could overestimate carbon losses during early decomposition in carbon cycle models.
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    https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85192596231&origin=inward
    DOI/handle
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14415
    http://hdl.handle.net/10576/57978
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