Decoupled responses of tree and shrub leaf and litter trait values to ecosystem retrogression across an island area gradient

Sammanfattning

Our results only partially agree with previous studies on temperate and subtropical retrogressive chronosequences. Because traits of only shrubs were responsive, they also highlight that impairment of belowground ecosystem processes during retrogression is primarily driven by changes in the trait spectra of understory vegetation rather than that of the trees.

Nyckelord

Decomposition; Ecosystemdevelopment; Plant traits; Retrogression; Succession

Publicerad i

Plant and Soil
2013, volym: 367, nummer: 1-2, sidor: 183-197
Utgivare: SPRINGER

SLU författare

• Lagerström, Anna

  • Institutionen för skogens ekologi och skötsel, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Nilsson Hegethorn, Marie-Charlotte

  • Institutionen för skogens ekologi och skötsel, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Wardle, David

  • Institutionen för skogens ekologi och skötsel, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Skogsvetenskap

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-012-1159-x

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