Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

Mark A. Bradford (), Robert J. Warren, Petr Baldrian, Thomas W. Crowther, Daniel S. Maynard, Emily E. Oldfield, William R. Wieder, Stephen A. Wood and Joshua R. King
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Mark A. Bradford: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, 370 Prospect Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
Robert J. Warren: SUNY Buffalo State, 1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, New York 14222, USA
Petr Baldrian: Institute of Microbiology of the ASCR
Thomas W. Crowther: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, 370 Prospect Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
Daniel S. Maynard: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, 370 Prospect Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
Emily E. Oldfield: School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, 370 Prospect Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
William R. Wieder: National Center for Atmospheric Research
Stephen A. Wood: Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue New York, New York 10027, USA
Joshua R. King: University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard Orlando, Florida 32816, USA

Nature Climate Change, 2014, vol. 4, issue 7, 625-630

Abstract: Climate is assumed to be the predominant control on the decomposition rates of organic matter in Earth-system models. Now, research investigating the sensitivity of this relationship to spatial scale reveals the important role of local-scale factors in controlling regional decomposition dynamics.

Date: 2014
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