• Home-field advantage effects in litter decomposition is largely linked to litter quality 

      Pugnaire, Francisco I.; Aares, Karoline Helene; Alifriqui, Mohamed; Bråthen, Kari Anne; Kindler, Christian; Schöb, Christian; Manrique, Esteban (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-03)
      Climate change and associated environmental alterations affect plant communities, potentially decoupling links between plants and their associated soil microbial communities. This may in turn affect processes like litter decomposition, an important function that controls nutrient and carbon cycling as well as many other ecosystem processes. Microbial decomposers have been proposed to specialize, ...
    • Homesick plants - a study on Plant-soil feedback in home and foreign soil following a latitudinal sampling gradient from Morocco to Svalbard 

      Aares, Karoline Helene (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-01)
      Plant-soil feedbacks receive increasing attention as impactors of plant performance and drivers of plant community composition. How plant-soil feedbacks act in introduction events regarding both native and foreign species is a topic requiring more research. In this aspect, two particular theories are of interest, Home-field advantage, and Enemy-release. The former predicts that plants perform best ...