Catherine Mathuriau

TL;DR: It is found that climate warming will likely hasten microbial litter decomposition and produce an equivalent decline in detritivore-mediated decomposition rates, which implies consequences for global biogeochemistry and a possible positive climate feedback.

TL;DR: The high fungal activity associated with rapid leaf breakdown appears to be characteristic of leaf processing in tropical streams, and the softer texture, lower tannin content, and higher N content were partly responsible for the faster breakdown of Croton leaves.

TL;DR: A global-scale study of litter breakdown in streams to compare the roles of biotic, climatic and other environmental factors on breakdown rates revealed that breakdown of alder was driven by climate, with some influence of pH, whereas variation in breakdown of litter mixtures was explained mainly by litter quality and PD.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data obtained with standardized methods from multiple streams in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Australia to test the hypothesis that this variability would lead to differences in the relative role of detritivores and microorganisms in the breakdown process.

TL;DR: The dynamics of benthic detritus and the structure, composition and functional feeding groups of as- sociated macroinvertebrate communities were followed at biweekly intervals over one year in a 4th-order Andean stream located in a forested hill in SW Colombia.