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Plant traits relate to whole-community litter quality and decomposition following land use change

2007-12-01

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1. Given the speed and extent of changes in vegetation as a result of human activity, there is a need to investigate ways in which individual species' impacts on ecosystem processes can be generalized and scaled-up to the community level. 2. We focus on linking community functional parameters (mean of the traits of the plants in the community, weighted using four different methods) with litter chemistry and decomp...

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Literature Corpus work: b28bcab9-f483-54fa-80a8-c17e509b760c
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01324.x

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