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Article: A global experiment suggests climate warming will not accelerate litter decomposition in streams but might reduce carbon sequestration

TitleA global experiment suggests climate warming will not accelerate litter decomposition in streams but might reduce carbon sequestration
Authors
KeywordsCarbon cycle
Climate change
Detritivores
Global analysis
Latitudinal gradient
Litter decomposition
Microbial decomposers
Streams
Temperature
Issue Date2011
PublisherBlackwell Publishing Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/ELE
Citation
Ecology Letters, 2011, v. 14 n. 3, p. 289-294 How to Cite?
AbstractThe decomposition of plant litter is one of the most important ecosystem processes in the biosphere and is particularly sensitive to climate warming. Aquatic ecosystems are well suited to studying warming effects on decomposition because the otherwise confounding influence of moisture is constant. By using a latitudinal temperature gradient in an unprecedented global experiment in streams, we found that climate warming will likely hasten microbial litter decomposition and produce an equivalent decline in detritivore-mediated decomposition rates. As a result, overall decomposition rates should remain unchanged. Nevertheless, the process would be profoundly altered, because the shift in importance from detritivores to microbes in warm climates would likely increase CO 2 production and decrease the generation and sequestration of recalcitrant organic particles. In view of recent estimates showing that inland waters are a significant component of the global carbon cycle, this implies consequences for global biogeochemistry and a possible positive climate feedback. © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/160589
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2023 Impact Factor: 7.6
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 4.497
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dc.contributor.authorBoulton, AJen_HK
dc.contributor.authorCallisto, Men_HK
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dc.date.accessioned2012-08-16T06:14:50Z-
dc.date.available2012-08-16T06:14:50Z-
dc.date.issued2011en_HK
dc.identifier.citationEcology Letters, 2011, v. 14 n. 3, p. 289-294en_HK
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dc.description.abstractThe decomposition of plant litter is one of the most important ecosystem processes in the biosphere and is particularly sensitive to climate warming. Aquatic ecosystems are well suited to studying warming effects on decomposition because the otherwise confounding influence of moisture is constant. By using a latitudinal temperature gradient in an unprecedented global experiment in streams, we found that climate warming will likely hasten microbial litter decomposition and produce an equivalent decline in detritivore-mediated decomposition rates. As a result, overall decomposition rates should remain unchanged. Nevertheless, the process would be profoundly altered, because the shift in importance from detritivores to microbes in warm climates would likely increase CO 2 production and decrease the generation and sequestration of recalcitrant organic particles. In view of recent estimates showing that inland waters are a significant component of the global carbon cycle, this implies consequences for global biogeochemistry and a possible positive climate feedback. © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS.en_HK
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dc.subjectCarbon cycleen_HK
dc.subjectClimate changeen_HK
dc.subjectDetritivoresen_HK
dc.subjectGlobal analysisen_HK
dc.subjectLatitudinal gradienten_HK
dc.subjectLitter decompositionen_HK
dc.subjectMicrobial decomposersen_HK
dc.subjectStreamsen_HK
dc.subjectTemperatureen_HK
dc.subject.meshCarbon Cycle-
dc.subject.meshCarbon Sequestration-
dc.subject.meshClimate Change-
dc.subject.meshFresh Water-
dc.subject.meshPlant Leaves - metabolism-
dc.titleA global experiment suggests climate warming will not accelerate litter decomposition in streams but might reduce carbon sequestrationen_HK
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