Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization

JM Sarneel; MM Hefting; T Sandén; J van den Hoogen; D Routh; BS Adhikari; JM Alatalo; A Aleksanyan; IHJ Althuizen; MHSA Alsafran; JW Atkins; L Augusto; M Aurela; AV Azarov; IC Barrio; C Beier; MD Bejarano; SE Benham; B Berg; NV Bezler; K Björnsdóttir; MA Bolinder; M Carbognani; R Cazzolla Gatti; S Chelli; MV Chistotin; CT Christiansen; P Courtois; TW Crowther; MS Dechoum; I Djukic; S Duddigan; LM Egerton-Warburton; N Fanin; M Fantappiè; S Fares; GW Fernandes; NV Filippova; A Fliessbach; D Fuentes; R Godoy; T Grünwald; G Guzmán; JE Hawes; Y He; J-M Hero; LL Hess; K Hogendoorn; TT Høye; WWP Jans; IS Jónsdóttir; S Keller; S Kepfer-Rojas; NN Kuz'menko; KS Larsen; H Laudon; JJ Lembrechts; J Li; J-M Limousin; SM Lukin; R Marques; C Marín; MD McDaniel; Q Meek; GE Merzlaya; A Michelsen; Leonardo Montagnani; P Mueller; R Murugan; IH Myers-Smith; S Nolte; R Ochoa-Hueso; BN Okafor; VV Okorkov; VG Onipchenko; MC Orozco; T Parkhurst; CA Peres; M Petit Bon; A Petraglia; M Pingel; C Rebmann; BR Scheffers; I Schmidt; MC Scholes; E Sheffer; LK Shevtsova; SW Smith; A Sofo; PR Stevenson; B Strouhalová; A Sundsdal; RB Sühs; G Tamene; HJD Thomas; D Tolunay; M Tomaselli; S Tresch; DL Tucker; MD Ulyshen; A Valdecantos; V Vandvik; EI Vanguelova; K Verheyen; X Wang; L Yahdjian; XS Yumashev; JA Keuskamp

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Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization

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Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization

JM Sarneel, MM Hefting, T Sandén, J van den Hoogen, D Routh, BS Adhikari, JM Alatalo, A Aleksanyan, IHJ Althuizen, MHSA Alsafran, …

Ecology Letters, Vol.27, pp.1-14

27/02/2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14415

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Citizen science

Environmental drivers

Litter decomposition

Mass loss

soil organic matter formation

Stabilization

tea bag index

Global Change

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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Title: Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization
Creators: JM Sarneel - Utrecht University
MM Hefting - Utrecht University
T Sandén - Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety
J van den Hoogen - ETH Zurich
D Routh - ETH Zurich
BS Adhikari - Wildlife Institute of India
JM Alatalo - Qatar University
A Aleksanyan - Institute of Botany
IHJ Althuizen
MHSA Alsafran
JW Atkins - Southern Research Station
L Augusto - Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
M Aurela - Finnish Meteorological Institute
AV Azarov - Belgorod State Agricultural University
IC Barrio - Agricultural University of Iceland
C Beier - University of Copenhagen
MD Bejarano - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
SE Benham - Forest Research
B Berg - University of Helsinki
NV Bezler
K Björnsdóttir - University of Gothenburg
MA Bolinder - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
M Carbognani - University of Parma
R Cazzolla Gatti
S Chelli - Università di Camerino
MV Chistotin - All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Agrochemistry named after D.N. Pryanishnikova
CT Christiansen - University of Copenhagen
P Courtois - AgroParisTech
TW Crowther - ETH Zurich
MS Dechoum
I Djukic - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
S Duddigan - University of Reading
LM Egerton-Warburton - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
N Fanin - École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques de Bordeaux-Aquitaine
M Fantappiè - Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria
S Fares - National Research Council
GW Fernandes - Forschungsinstitut für Biologischen Landbau
NV Filippova - Yugra State University
A Fliessbach
D Fuentes
R Godoy - Austral University of Chile
T Grünwald - TU Dresden
G Guzmán - Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training
JE Hawes - Anglia Ruskin University
Y He - Peking University
J-M Hero - University of the Sunshine Coast
LL Hess - University of California, Santa Barbara
K Hogendoorn - University of Adelaide
TT Høye - Aarhus University
WWP Jans
IS Jónsdóttir - University of Iceland
S Keller - ETH Zurich
S Kepfer-Rojas - University of Copenhagen
NN Kuz'menko - All-Russian Horticultural Institute for Breeding, Agrotechnology and Nursery
KS Larsen - University of Copenhagen
H Laudon - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
JJ Lembrechts - University of Antwerp
J Li - Northern Arizona University
J-M Limousin - Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive
SM Lukin
R Marques
C Marín - Universidad Santo Tomás
MD McDaniel - Iowa State University
Q Meek - University of Alberta
GE Merzlaya - All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Agrochemistry named after D.N. Pryanishnikova
A Michelsen - University of Copenhagen
Leonardo Montagnani - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
P Mueller - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
R Murugan - University of Kassel
IH Myers-Smith - University of British Columbia
S Nolte - Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
R Ochoa-Hueso - Universidad de Cádiz
BN Okafor - National Horticultural Research Institute
VV Okorkov
VG Onipchenko - Lomonosov Moscow State University
MC Orozco - Universidad de Los Andes
T Parkhurst - Murdoch University
CA Peres - University of East Anglia
M Petit Bon
A Petraglia - University of Parma
M Pingel - Hochschule Geisenheim University
C Rebmann - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
BR Scheffers - University of Florida
I Schmidt - University of Copenhagen
MC Scholes - University of the Witwatersrand
E Sheffer - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
LK Shevtsova - All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Agrochemistry named after D.N. Pryanishnikova
SW Smith - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
A Sofo - University of Basilicata
PR Stevenson - Universidad de Los Andes
B Strouhalová - Charles University
A Sundsdal - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
RB Sühs - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
G Tamene - University of Gondar
HJD Thomas
D Tolunay - Utrecht University
M Tomaselli - University of Parma
S Tresch - NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
DL Tucker - Case Western Reserve University
MD Ulyshen - Southern Research Station
A Valdecantos - University of Alicante
V Vandvik - Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
EI Vanguelova - Forest Research
K Verheyen - Ghent University
X Wang - Peking University
L Yahdjian - University of Buenos Aires
XS Yumashev
JA Keuskamp - Utrecht University
Publication Details: Ecology Letters, Vol.27, pp.1-14
ISSN: 1461-023X
EISSN: 1461-0248
Series / Volume: 27
Publisher: Wiley
Number of pages: 14
Identifiers: (UNIBZ)86132510
991006913726801241
Web of Science ID: WOS:001214908300001
Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85192596231
Copyright: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Academic Unit: Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Author Names String: 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 J-M, 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 J-M, 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

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