• Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude 

      Boyero, Luz; Graca, Manuel A S; Tonin, Alan M; Perez, Javier; Swafford, Andrew J; Ferreira, Veronica; Landeira-Dabarca, Andrea; Alexandrou, Markos A; Gessner, Mark O.; McKie, Brendan G.; Albarino, Ricardo J; Barmuta, Leon A; Callisto, Marcos; Chara, Julian; Chauvet, Eric; Dudgeon, David; Encalada, Andrea C; Figueroa, Ricardo; Flecker, Aleksander, S.; Fleituch, Tadeusz; Frainer, André; Goncalves, Jose F; Helson, Julie E; Iwata, Tomoya; Mathooko, Jude; M'Erimba, Charles; Pringle, Catherine; Ramírez, Alonso; Swan, Christopher M; Yule, Catherine M; Pearson, Richard G (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-09-05)
      Plant litter represents a major basal resource in streams, where its decomposition is partly regulated by litter traits. Litter-trait variation may determine the latitudinal gradient in decomposition in streams, which is mainly microbial in the tropics and detritivore-mediated at high latitudes. However, this hypothesis remains untested, as we lack information on large-scale trait variation for ...