1. Controls on Coarse Wood Decay in Temperate Tree Species: Birth of the LOGLIFE Experiment
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Frank J. Sterck, Juan Zuo, Rozan Martin, L. Goudzwaard, Monique Weemstra, Godefridus M. J. Mohren, Wietse de Boer, Annemieke van der Wal, Matty P. Berg, Grégoire T. Freschet, Rene Klaassen, Vincent Cretin, Jan den Ouden, Henk Eshuis, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Lourens Poorter, Richard S. P. van Logtestijn, Rien Aerts, Jurgen van Hal, Mariet M. Hefting, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Koert G. van Geffen, Teun Lamers, Microbial Ecology (ME), Systems Ecology, Animal Ecology, and Amsterdam Global Change Institute
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Time Factors ,Environmental change ,Climate ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Forest management ,Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation ,Carbon sequestration ,Microbiology ,Article ,Carbon Cycle ,Trees ,diversity ,Species Specificity ,Microbiologie ,trait variation ,Temperate climate ,Environmental Chemistry ,Bosecologie en Bosbeheer ,Ecosystem ,SDG 15 - Life on Land ,Abiotic component ,litter decomposition rates ,Ecology ,sweden ,General Medicine ,PE&RC ,Wood ,Forest Ecology and Forest Management ,economics spectrum ,communities ,Habitat ,international ,inhabiting fungi ,Plantenecologie en Natuurbeheer ,Environmental science ,history ,Coarse woody debris ,coniferous forests ,debris ,Environmental Monitoring - Abstract
Dead wood provides a huge terrestrial carbon stock and a habitat to wide-ranging organisms during its decay. Our brief review highlights that, in order to understand environmental change impacts on these functions, we need to quantify the contributions of different interacting biotic and abiotic drivers to wood decomposition. LOGLIFE is a new long-term 'common-garden' experiment to disentangle the effects of species' wood traits and siterelated environmental drivers on wood decomposition dynamics and its associated diversity of microbial and invertebrate communities. This experiment is firmly rooted in pioneering experiments under the directorship of Terry Callaghan at Abisko Research Station, Sweden. LOGLIFE features two contrasting forest sites in the Netherlands, each hosting a similar set of coarse logs and branches of 10 tree species. LOGLIFE welcomes other researchers to test further questions concerning coarse wood decay that will also help to optimise forest management in view of carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation. Copyright © Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2012.
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- 2012