Global meta‐analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?

Ecology Letters - Tập 12 Số 1 - Trang 45-56 - 2009
James T. Weedon1, William K. Cornwell, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Amy E. Zanne, Christian Wirth, David A. Coomes
1Department of Systems Ecology, Institute of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [email protected]

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AbstractThe carbon flux from woody debris, a crucial uncertainty within global carbon‐climate models, is simultaneously affected by climate, site environment and species‐based variation in wood quality. In the first global analysis attempting to explicitly tease out the wood quality contribution to decomposition, we found support for our hypothesis that, under a common climate, interspecific differences in wood traits affect woody debris decomposition patterns. A meta‐analysis of 36 studies from all forested continents revealed that nitrogen, phosphorus, and C : N ratio correlate with decomposition rates of angiosperms. In addition, gymnosperm wood consistently decomposes slower than angiosperm wood within common sites, a pattern that correlates with clear divergence in wood traits between the two groups. New empirical studies are needed to test whether this difference is due to a direct effect of wood trait variation on decomposer activity or an indirect effect of wood traits on decomposition microsite environment. The wood trait–decomposition results point to an important role for changes in the wood traits of dominant tree species as a driver of carbon cycling, with likely feedback to atmospheric CO2particularly where angiosperm species replace gymnosperms regionally. Truly worldwide upscaling of our results will require further site‐based multi‐species wood trait and decomposition data, particularly from low‐latitude ecosystems.

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Ecology Letters

Tập 12 Số 1

45-56

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