• Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition 

      Boyero, Luz; Pérez, Javier; López-Rojo, Naiara; Tonin, Alan M.; Correa-Araneda, Francisco; Pearson, Richard G.; Bosch, Jaime; Albariño, Ricardo J.; Anbalagan, Sankarappan; Barmuta, Leon A.; Beesley, Leah; Burdon, Francis J.; Caliman, Adriano; Callisto, Marcos; Campbell, Ian C.; Cardinale, Bradley J.; Jesús Casas, Casas; Chará-Serna, Ana M.; Ciapała, Szymon; Chauvet, Eric; Colón-Gaud, Checo; Cornejo, Aydeé; Davis, Aaron M.; Degebrodt, Monika; Dias, Emerson S.; Díaz, María E.; Douglas, Michael M.; Elosegi, Arturo; Encalada, Andrea C.; De Eyto, Elvira; Figueroa, Ricardo; Flecker, Alexander S.; Fleituch, Tadeusz; Frainer, André; França, Juliana S.; Garcia, Erica; García, Gabriela; García, Pavel; Gessner, Mark O.; Giller, Paul S.; Gómez, Jesús E.; Gómez, Sergio; Gonçalves, Jose F.; Graça, Manuel A.S.; Hall, Robert O.; Hamada, Neusa; Hepp, Luiz U.; Hui, Cang; Imazawa, Daichi; Iwata, Tomoya; Junior, Edson S.A.; Kariuki, Samuel; Landeira-Dabarca, Andrea; Leal, María; Lehosmaa, Kaisa; M’Erimba, Charles; Marchant, Richard; Martins, Renato T.; Masese, Frank O.; McKie, Brendan G.; Medeiros, Adriana O.; Middleton, Jen A.; Muotka, Timo; Negishi, Junjiro N.; Pozo, Jesús; Ramírez, Alonso; Rezende, Renan S.; Richardson, John S.; Rincón, José; Rubio-Ríos, Juan; Serrano, Claudia; Shaffer, Angela R.; Sheldon, Fran; Swan, Christopher M.; Tenkiano, Nathalie S.D.; Tiegs, Scott D.; Tolod, Janine R.; Vernasky, Michael; Watson, Anne; Yegon, Mourine J.; Yule, Catherine M. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-26)
      Running waters contribute substantially to global carbon fluxes through decomposition of terrestrial plant litter by aquatic microorganisms and detritivores. Diversity of this litter may influence instream decomposition globally in ways that are not yet understood. We investigated latitudinal differences in decomposition of litter mixtures of low and high functional diversity in 40 streams on 6 ...
    • 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 ...