Do canopy herbivores mechanically facilitate subsequent litter decomposition in soil? A pilot study from a Neotropical cloud forest

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Ecological research

• Publication date

  2012-08-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s11284-012-0979-8
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Methods to Study Litter Decomposition: A Practical Guide

  2020cited by this paper
• Multitrophic interactions below and above ground: en route to the next level

  2011cited by this paper
• Ecosystem consequences of selective feeding of an insect herbivore: palatability–decomposability relationship revisited

  2011cited by this paper
• Diversity meets decomposition.

  2010cited by this paper
• Snail and millipede complementarity in decomposing Mediterranean forest leaf litter mixtures

  2010cited by this paper
• Crop damage increases with pest species diversity: evidence from potato tuber moths in the tropical Andes

  2009cited by this paper
• K-Sample Anderson-Darling Tests of Fit, for Continuous and Discrete Cases

  2008cited by this paper
• The Global Stoichiometry of Litter Nitrogen Mineralization

  2008cited by this paper
• Aboveground Herbivory Shapes the Biomass Distribution and Flux of Soil Invertebrates

  2008cited by this paper
• Leaf herbivory and decomposability in a Malaysian tropical rain forest.

  2008influential reference
• High variation in foliage and leaf litter chemistry among 45 tree species of a neotropical rainforest community.

  2008cited by this paper
• Resource Use and Seed Dispersal by Red Howler Monkeys (Alouatta seniculus) in a Colombian Andean Forest

  2007cited by this paper
• Divergence and diversity in the defensive ecology of Inga at two Neotropical sites

  2007cited by this paper
• Multiple nutrients limit litterfall and decomposition in a tropical forest.

  2007cited by this paper
• Herbivory differentially alters plant litter dynamics of evergreen and deciduous trees

  2006cited by this paper
• Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/joc.1276 VERY HIGH RESOLUTION INTERPOLATED CLIMATE SURFACES FOR GLOBAL LAND AREAS

  2005cited by this paper
• Do woodlice and earthworms interact synergistically in leaf litter decomposition

  2005cited by this paper
• Leaf scarring by the weevils Neochetina eichhorniae and N. bruchi enhances infection by the fungus Cercospora piaropi on waterhyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes

  2005influential reference
• Effects of Feeding Spodoptera littoralis on Lima Bean Leaves. II. Continuous Mechanical Wounding Resembling Insect Feeding Is Sufficient to Elicit Herbivory-Related Volatile Emission

  2005cited by this paper
• ECOLOGÍA Y COMPORTAMIENTO DE OSOS ANDINOS REINTRODUCIDOS EN LA RESERVA BIOLÓGICA MAQUIPUCUNA, ECUADOR: IMPLICACIONES EN LA CONSERVACIÓN

  2005cited by this paper
• Methods to Study Litter Decomposition

  2005cited by this paper
• Ecological Linkages Between Aboveground and Belowground Biota

  2004influential reference
• Alcohol Enhances GABAergic Transmission to Cerebellar Granule Cells via an Increase in Golgi Cell Excitability

  2004cited by this paper
• PATTERNS OF HERBIVORY AND DECOMPOSITION IN AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS

  2004cited by this paper
• Simulating species loss following perturbation: assessing the effects on process rates

  2002cited by this paper
• Testing for context‐dependence in a processing chain interaction among detritus‐feeding aquatic insects

  2002cited by this paper
• Influence of insects on the diversity of fungi in decaying spruce wood in managed and natural forests

  2002cited by this paper
• Aggregation of shredder invertebrates associated with benthic detrital pools in seven headwater forested streams

  2002cited by this paper
• Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology

  2002influential reference
• II. Leaf Litter Processing and Invertebrates The Role of Invertebrates on Leaf Litter Decomposition in Streams - a Review

  2001influential reference
• Insect population dynamics meets ecosystem ecology: effects of herbivory on soil nutrient dynamics

  2001cited by this paper
• Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Equador

  1999cited by this paper
• Altered leaf-litter decomposition rates in tropical forest fragments

  1998cited by this paper
• Ecosystem engineering by a dominant detritivore in a diverse tropical stream

  1996cited by this paper
• HERBIVORY AND PLANT DEFENSES IN TROPICAL FORESTS

  1996cited by this paper
• Processing Chain Ecology: Resource Condition and Interspecific Interactions

  1994influential reference
• Influence of canopy removal on oak forest floor decomposition

  1989cited by this paper
• Video Digitizer for the Rapid Measurement of Leaf Area Lost to Herbivorous Insects

  1988influential reference
• Nutrient Cycling in Moist Tropical Forest

  1986cited by this paper
• An assessment of techniques for measuring herbivory: is rainforest defoliation more intense than we thought?

  1984cited by this paper
• Nitrogen-to-protein conversion factors for tropical plant samples

  1981influential reference
• EDF Statistics for Goodness of Fit and Some Comparisons

  1974cited by this paper

• Litter leaves misrepresent plant–insect interactions in standing vegetation

  2025cites this paper
• Why oaks should stay with their close relatives: growing in a distantly related neighbourhood delays and reorganizes nutrient recycling during litter decomposition

  2025cites this paper
• Effects of Soil Fauna on the Home-Field Advantage of Litter Total Phenol and Condensed Tannin Decomposition

  2024cites this paper
• Ungulates alter plant cover without consistent effect on soil ecosystem functioning

  2022cites this paper
• Chronic insect herbivores accelerate litter decomposition and nutrient recycling rates along an environmental/herbivory gradient in northern Patagonia

  2021cites this paper
• Decomposition of Herbivore-Damaged Leaves of Understory Species Growing in Oak and Pine Stands

  2021cites this paper
• The importance of insects on land and in water: a tropical view.

  2020cites this paper
• Negative effects of litter richness on root decomposition in the presence of detritivores

  2018cites this paper
• Tropical herbivorous phasmids, but not litter snails, alter decomposition rates by modifying litter bacteria.

  2018cites this paper
• Edge and herbivory effects on leaf litter decomposability in a subtropical dry forest

  2017cites this paper
• Functional consequences of realistic extinction scenarios in Amazonian soil food webs

  2017cites this paper
• Shelters of leaf-tying herbivores decompose faster than leaves damaged by free-living insects: Implications for nutrient turnover in polluted habitats.

  2016cites this paper
• Mass loss of Pinus massoniana and Cinnamomum camphora leaf litter in forest gaps of different size*

  2016cites this paper
• Litter decomposition of six common tree species at different rainy periods in the subtropical region

  2015cites this paper
• Plant herbivory responses through changes in leaf quality have no effect on subsequent leaf-litter decomposition in a neotropical rain forest tree community.

  2015cites this paper