E. Carol Adair

TL;DR: The analyses clearly show that the ecosystem consequences of local species loss are as quantitatively significant as the direct effects of several global change stressors that have mobilized major international concern and remediation efforts.

TL;DR: It is suggested that fundamental constraints on decomposer physiologies lead to predictable global-scale patterns in net N release during decomposition.

TL;DR: This article used the Long-term Intersite Decomposition Experiment Team (LIDET) dataset and model selection techniques to choose and parameterize a model that describes global patterns of litter decomposition Mass loss was best represented by a three-pool negative exponential model, with a rapidly decomposing labile pool, an intermediate pool representing cellulose, and a recalcitrant pool.

TL;DR: This article used a short-term litterbag experiment to quantify the effects of litter quality, placement and mesofaunal exclusion on decomposition in 23 tropical forests in 14 countries, in which two standard substrates (Raphia farinifera and Laurus nobilis ) were decomposed in fine-and coarse-mesh litterbags both above and below ground for approximately 1 year.

TL;DR: Comparing effects of substrate N (as it differed between leaves and litter) and externally supplied N (inorganic or organic forms) on decomposition and decomposer community structure and function over four years shows asymptotic decomposition models fit the data equally well as single exponential models.