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Sarneel JM, Hefting MM, Sandén T, van den Hoogen J, Routh D, Adhikari BS, Alatalo JM, Aleksanyan A, Althuizen IHJ, Alsafran MHSA, Atkins JW, Augusto L, Aurela M, Azarov AV, Barrio IC, Beier C, Bejarano MD, Benham SE, Berg B, Bezler NV, Björnsdóttir K, Bolinder MA, Carbognani M, Cazzolla Gatti R, Chelli S, Chistotin MV, Christiansen CT, Courtois P, Crowther TW, Dechoum MS, Djukic I, Duddigan S, Egerton-Warburton LM, Fanin N, Fantappiè M, Fares S, Fernandes GW, Filippova NV, Fliessbach A, Fuentes D, Godoy R, Grünwald T, Guzmán G, Hawes JE, He Y, Hero JM, Hess LL, Hogendoorn K, Høye TT, Jans WWP, Jónsdóttir IS, Keller S, Kepfer-Rojas S, Kuz'menko NN, Larsen KS, Laudon H, Lembrechts JJ, Li J, Limousin JM, Lukin SM, Marques R, Marín C, McDaniel MD, Meek Q, Merzlaya GE, Michelsen A, Montagnani L, Mueller P, Murugan R, Myers-Smith IH, Nolte S, Ochoa-Hueso R, Okafor BN, Okorkov VV, Onipchenko VG, Orozco MC, Parkhurst T, Peres CA, Petit Bon M, Petraglia A, Pingel M, Rebmann C, Scheffers BR, Schmidt I, Scholes MC, Sheffer E, Shevtsova LK, Smith SW, Sofo A, Stevenson PR, Strouhalová B, Sundsdal A, Sühs RB, Tamene G, Thomas HJD, Tolunay D, Tomaselli M, Tresch S, Tucker DL, Ulyshen MD, Valdecantos A, Vandvik V, Vanguelova EI, Verheyen K, Wang X, Yahdjian L, Yumashev XS, Keuskamp JA. Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization. Ecol Lett 2024; 27:e14415. [PMID: 38712683 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2023] [Revised: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
Abstract
The breakdown of plant material fuels soil functioning and biodiversity. Currently, process understanding of global decomposition patterns and the drivers of such patterns are hampered by the lack of coherent large-scale datasets. We buried 36,000 individual litterbags (tea bags) worldwide and found an overall negative correlation between initial mass-loss rates and stabilization factors of plant-derived carbon, using the Tea Bag Index (TBI). The stabilization factor quantifies the degree to which easy-to-degrade components accumulate during early-stage decomposition (e.g. by environmental limitations). However, agriculture and an interaction between moisture and temperature led to a decoupling between initial mass-loss rates and stabilization, notably in colder locations. Using TBI improved mass-loss estimates of natural litter compared to models that ignored stabilization. Ignoring the transformation of dead plant material to more recalcitrant substances during early-stage decomposition, and the environmental control of this transformation, could overestimate carbon losses during early decomposition in carbon cycle models.
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Affiliation(s)
- Judith M Sarneel
- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå Universitet, Umeå, Sweden
- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
| | - Taru Sandén
- Department for Soil Health and Plant Nutrition, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Vienna, Austria
| | - Johan van den Hoogen
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
| | - Devin Routh
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Science IT, University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
| | | | - Juha M Alatalo
- Environmental Science Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
| | - Alla Aleksanyan
- Department of Geobotany and Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Botany aft. A.L. Takhtajyan NAS of RA, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - Inge H J Althuizen
- Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
| | | | - Jeff W Atkins
- USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, New Ellenton, South Carolina, USA
| | - Laurent Augusto
- INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, ISPA, Villenave d'Ornon, France
| | - Mika Aurela
- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate System Research, Helsinki, Finland
| | | | - Isabel C Barrio
- Faculty of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Agricultural University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Natural Systems and Resources, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Nadezhda V Bezler
- All-Russian Institute of Sugar and Sygar Beet Named after D. Mazlumov, Ramon, Russia
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
| | - Martin A Bolinder
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Michele Carbognani
- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
| | - Roberto Cazzolla Gatti
- Biological Institute, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - Stefano Chelli
- School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, MC, Italy
| | - Maxim V Chistotin
- All-Russian Research Institute of Agrochemistry Named after D. Pryanishnikov, Moscow, Russia
| | - Casper T Christiansen
- Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- UMR Silva, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
| | - Thomas W Crowther
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
| | - Michele S Dechoum
- Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK
| | | | - Nicolas Fanin
- INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, ISPA, Villenave d'Ornon, France
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- Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria, Rome, Italy
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- National Research Council of Italy Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Systems in the Mediterranean, Naples, Italy
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- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia & Evolução, ICB/Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
- Knowledge Center for Biodiversity, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
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- Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Tharandt, Germany
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- Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA), Camino de Purchil, Granada, Spain
- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture-CSIC, Cordoba, Spain
| | - Joseph E Hawes
- Applied Ecology Research Group, School of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
- Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Institute of Science and Environment, University of Cumbria, Ambleside, Cumbria, UK
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Peking University, Beijing, China
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
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- School of Anthropology and Conservation, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, The University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia
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- Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Ecoscience and Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Research Group Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Upper Volga Federal Agrarain Scientific Center, Vladimir, Russia
| | - Renato Marques
- Departamento de Solos e Engenharia Agrícola, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brasil
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación para el Cambio Climático (CiiCC), Universidad Santo Tomás, Valdivia, Chile
| | | | - Qi Meek
- Department of Renewable Resources, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
| | - Genrietta E Merzlaya
- All-Russian Research Institute of Agrochemistry Named after D. Pryanishnikov, Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Forest Services, Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
- Libera Universita di Bolzano, Facoltà di Scienze e Tecnologie, Piazza Università, Bolzano, Italy
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- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA
- Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Soil Biology and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany
- Valli Sustainability Research and Education, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, Forest Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, UK
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- Department of Biology, IVAGRO, University of Cádiz, Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario (ceiA3), Cádiz, Spain
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- Department of Ecology and Plant Geography, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
| | - María C Orozco
- Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- School of Environmental and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Carlos A Peres
- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Department of Arctic Biology, The University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences Fisheries and Economics, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- Department of Wildland Resources, Quinney College of Natural Resources and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
| | - Martin Pingel
- Department of Applied Ecology, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
| | - Brett R Scheffers
- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
| | - Inger Schmidt
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Institute of Plant Science and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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- All-Russian Research Institute of Agrochemistry Named after D. Pryanishnikov, Moscow, Russia
| | - Stuart W Smith
- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Ecological Science Department, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of European and Mediterranean Cultures: Architecture, Environment, Cultural Heritage (DiCEM), University of Basilicata, Matera, Italy
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- Departement of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences, University of South-Eastern, Notodden, Norway
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- Programa de pós-graduacão em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Department of Natural Resource Management, College of Agriculture and Environmental, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Institute for Applied Plant Biology, Witterswil, Switzerland
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- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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- USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Ecology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Studies, Ramon Margalef, IMEM, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Environment, Forest and Nature Lab, Gent University, Ghent, Belgium
| | - Xuhui Wang
- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | | | - Joost A Keuskamp
- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Biont Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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