Earth is home to over 350,000 vascular plant species that differ in their traits in innumerable
ways. A key challenge is to predict how natural or anthropogenically driven changes in the …

Most plants are clonal ie able to laterally propagate by producing new genetically identical
ramets connected by specialized clonal organs. Clonality determines ramet aggregation …

The chemical traits of litter are among the most critical factors that affect its decomposition.
During vegetation restoration of planted forests, increasing age of the planted species and …

Introduction The decomposition of plant litter mass is responsible for substantial carbon
fluxes and remains a key process regulating nutrient cycling in natural and managed …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play an important role on litter decomposition, which is
the keyways for nutrients returning to natural ecosystems. Although having no known …

Microbial communities drive plant litter breakdown. Litters originating from different plant
species are often associated with specialised microbiomes that accelerate the breakdown of …

Plants allocate nutrients to new leaves via making a cost–benefit trade‐off between root
nutrient absorption ('get') and leaf nutrient resorption ('save'). This active trade‐off in nutrient …

Background and aims Leaf litter decomposition constitutes a valuable ecosystem service by
recycling nutrients, transferring energy, and sequestrating carbon (C) in terrestrial …

Abstract The 'home-field advantage'(HFA) hypothesis predicts that litter decomposition is
accelerated in its home environment (ie in conspecific soil). Soil organisms play a key role in …

Wetlands are vulnerable to plant invasions and the decomposition of invasive plant litter
could make impacts on the ecosystem services of wetlands including nutrient cycle and …