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1. Full Text Biochar and Water Quality
by Blanco-Canqui, Humberto and Blanco-Canqui, Humberto
Journal of environmental quality, ISSN 0047-2425, 01/2019, Volume 48, Issue 1, pp. 2 - 15
Biochar application is considered to be an emerging strategy to improve soil ecosystem services. However, implications of such application on water quality... 
PYROLYSIS TEMPERATURE | BLACK CARBON | SOIL FERTILITY | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS | PHOSPHORUS SORPTION | NUTRIENT RELEASE | POULTRY LITTER | HEAVY-METALS | ORGANIC-CARBON | IMPROVING SOIL
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2. Full Text Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes
by García‐Palacios, Pablo and Maestre, Fernando T and Kattge, Jens and Wall, Diana H and Klironomos, John
Ecology Letters, ISSN 1461-023X, 08/2013, Volume 16, Issue 8, pp. 1045 - 1053
Climate and litter quality have been identified as major drivers of litter decomposition at large spatial scales. However, the role played by soil fauna... 
soil fauna | litter quality | litter decomposition | Carbon dynamics | climate | meta‐analysis | litter C : N ratio | Climate | Soil fauna | Litter C : N ratio | Litter quality | Litter decomposition | Meta-analysis | BIODIVERSITY | METAANALYSIS | GLOBAL PATTERNS | meta-analysis | TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS | litter C:N ratio | LEAF-LITTER | RATES | MASS | MICROARTHROPODS | FUNCTIONAL TRAITS | ECOLOGY | IMPACTS | Animals | Plant Leaves - metabolism | Biota | Ecosystem | Invertebrates - physiology | Soil - chemistry | Biomes | Analysis | carbon dynamics
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3. Full Text Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude
by Boyero, Luz and Graça, Manuel A. S and Tonin, Alan M and Pérez, Javier and Swafford, Andrew J and Ferreira, Verónica and Landeira-Dabarca, Andrea and Alexandrou, Markos A and Gessner, Mark O and McKie, Brendan G and Albariño, Ricardo J and Barmuta, Leon A and Callisto, Marcos and Chará, Julián and Chauvet, Eric and Colón-Gaud, Checo and Dudgeon, David and Encalada, Andrea C and Figueroa, Ricardo and Flecker, Alexander S and Fleituch, Tadeusz and Frainer, André and Gonçalves, José F and Helson, Julie E and Iwata, Tomoya and Mathooko, Jude and M'Erimba, Charles and Pringle, Catherine M and Ramírez, Alonso and Swan, Christopher M and Yule, Catherine M and Pearson, Richard G and Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap and Umeå universitet and Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten
Scientific Reports, ISSN 2045-2322, 12/2017, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 10562 - 10
Plant litter represents a major basal resource in streams, where its decomposition is partly regulated by litter traits. Litter-trait variation may determine... 
STREAMS | TEMPERATURE | GLOBAL PATTERNS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | RAIN-FOREST | DECOMPOSITION | NITROGEN | TRAITS | NUTRIENT RESORPTION | SOIL FAUNA | CLIMATE | Litter | Quality | Phosphorus | Decomposition | Latitude | Environmental factors | Phylogeny | Nutrient concentrations | Variation | Streams | Ecology: 488 | Riparian ecology | VDP | Zoology and botany: 480 | Macroecology | Freshwater ecology | Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 | Mathematics and natural science: 400 | Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400 | Økologi: 488 | Life Sciences | Ecology, environment | Biodiversity and Ecology | Environmental Sciences | Global Changes | Biological Sciences | Ecology | Naturvetenskap | Natural Sciences | Ekologi | Biologiska vetenskaper
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4. Full Text Microbial decomposition of soil organic matter is mediated by quality and quantity of crop residues: mechanisms and thresholds
by Shahbaz, Muhammad and Kuzyakov, Yakov and Sanaullah, Muhammad and Heitkamp, Felix and Zelenev, Vladimir and Kumar, Amit and Blagodatskaya, Evgenia
Biology and Fertility of Soils, ISSN 0178-2762, 4/2017, Volume 53, Issue 3, pp. 287 - 301
Crop residue quality and quantity have contrasting effects on soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition, but the mechanisms explaining such priming effect (PE)... 
Life Sciences | Enzyme activities | Priming effect | Litter quality | Soil organic matter | Microbial necromass | Agriculture | Soil Science & Conservation | 13 C-labeled crop residues | C-labeled crop residues | ENZYME-ACTIVITIES | SUBSTRATE UTILIZATION | LITTER DECOMPOSITION | STABILIZATION | C-13-labeled crop residues | SOIL SCIENCE | C-13 | BIOMASS-C | AVAILABILITY | MINERALIZATION | LABILE CARBON | NITROGEN | Enzymes | Wheat | Analysis | Soil microbiology | Studies | Soils | Decomposition | Crop residues
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5. Full Text Litter quality and environmental controls of home-field advantage effects on litter decomposition
by Veen, G. F and Freschet, G.T and Ordonez, A and Wardle, D.A and Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Oikos, ISSN 0030-1299, 2015, Volume 124, Issue 2, pp. 187 - 195
The ‘home-field advantage (HFA) hypothesis’ predicts that plant litter is decomposed faster than expected in the vicinity of the plant where it originates from... 
international | BIOTIC INTERACTIONS | PLANT | RATES | SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | RAIN-FOREST | DYNAMICS | ECOLOGY | TRAITS | ECOSYSTEMS | LEAF-LITTER | CLIMATE | Climate | Decomposition | Plant ecology | Skogsvetenskap | Forest Science
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6. Full Text Integrating plant litter quality, soil organic matter stabilization, and the carbon saturation concept
by Castellano, Michael J and Mueller, Kevin E and Olk, Daniel C and Sawyer, John E and Six, Johan
Global Change Biology, ISSN 1354-1013, 09/2015, Volume 21, Issue 9, pp. 3200 - 3209
Labile, ‘high‐quality’, plant litters are hypothesized to promote soil organic matter (SOM) stabilization in mineral soil fractions that are physicochemically... 
mineralization | decomposition | litter | nitrogen | residue | Decomposition | Litter | Nitrogen | Mineralization | Residue | RESIDUE QUALITY | MICROBIAL CARBON | MECHANISMS | TILLAGE SYSTEMS | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | C-13 | FRACTIONS | DYNAMICS | ECOLOGY | TEMPERATE SOILS | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | Carbon Cycle | Plant Physiological Phenomena | Models, Biological | Ecosystem | Organic Chemicals - chemistry | Soil - chemistry | Soils | Climate change | Biogeochemistry | Plant ecology
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7. Full Text Impact of piglet birth weight, birth order, and litter size on subsequent growth performance, carcass quality, muscle composition, and eating quality of pork
by Beaulieu, A.D and Aalhus, J.L and Williams, N.H and Patience, J.F
Journal of Animal Science, ISSN 0021-8812, 08/2010, Volume 88, Issue 8, pp. 2767 - 2778
The objective of this study was to investigate the relationships among birth weight, birth order, or litter size on growth performance, carcass quality, and... 
Litter size | Birth weight | Carcass quality | Pork quality | Pig performance | SURVIVAL | birth weight | pork quality | AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE | POSTNATAL-GROWTH | carcass quality | litter size | pig performance | SOWS | Swine - physiology | Animals | Litter Size - physiology | Meat - analysis | Muscle, Skeletal - chemistry | Birth Weight - physiology | Female | Male | Weight Gain - physiology | Meat - standards | Swine - growth & development | Physiological aspects | Research | Swine | Growth
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8. Decaying organic materials and soil quality in the Inland Northwest
: a management opportunity
by Harvey, A. E
1987, General technical report (Intermountain Research Station (Ogden, Utah)), Volume INT-225., 15
Biodegredation | Quality | Forest soils | Forest litter
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9. Full Text HETEROGENEITY IN INDIVIDUAL QUALITY AND REPRODUCTIVE TRADE-OFFS WITHIN SPECIES
by Jiahui N. Lim and Alistair M. Senior and Shinichi Nakagawa
Evolution, ISSN 0014-3820, 8/2014, Volume 68, Issue 8, pp. 2306 - 2318
Interspecifically, a reasonable body of evidence supports a trade-off between offspring size and number. However, at the intraspecific level, a whole manner of... 
Datasets | Statistical variance | Biological taxonomies | Correlations | Phylogenetics | Resource availability | Evolution | Phylogeny | Fecundity | Phenotypic traits | resource acquisition | resource allocation | Clutch size | litter size | optimum offspring size | life‐history theory | Litter size | Resource acquisition | Optimum offspring size | Life-history theory | Resource allocation | EGG SIZE | NUMBER | VAN NOORDWIJK | ENVIRONMENT | life-history theory | PATTERNS | OFFSPRING SIZE | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | COSTS | EVOLUTION | INVESTMENT | GENETICS & HEREDITY | ECOLOGY | Phenotype | Reproduction | Animals | Clutch Size | Body Size | Models, Biological | Female | Unicellular organisms | Genetic aspects | Research | Spontaneous generation | Natural history
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10. Full Text Litter quality influences bacterial communities more strongly than changes in riparian buffer quality in oil palm streams
by Chellaiah, D and Yule, CM
AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY, ISSN 0948-3055, 2019, Volume 83, Issue 2, pp. 167 - 179
The conversion of tropical forests into oil palm Elaeis guineensis (OP) monoculture alters stream physicochemical conditions, potentially threatening... 
Litter quality Riparian buffer | MALAYSIA | DECOMPOSITION | MICROBIOLOGY | Oil palm plantations | LEAF-LITTER | 16S rRNA genes | PLANT LITTER | BENTHIC BACTERIAL | Bacterial decomposers | FUNGAL | MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY | SOIL | ECOLOGY | DIVERSITY | MICROBIAL DYNAMICS | BREAKDOWN | Lignin | rRNA 16S | Communities | Riparian vegetation | Environmental changes | Riparian forests | Tropical forests | Riparian environments | Environmental management | Monoculture | Gene sequencing | Bacteria | Nutrients | Buffers | Streams | Community composition | Agricultural management | Composition | Litter | Plantations | Plant communities | Freshwater ecosystems | Organic chemistry | Dynamic tests | Plant diversity | Oil | Riparian buffers | Colonization | Aquatic ecosystems
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11. Full Text Carbon quality rather than stoichiometry controls litter decomposition in a tropical rain forest
by Stephan Hättenschwiler and Helene Bracht Jørgensen and Biodiversitet and Lund University and Lunds universitet and Biodiversity and BECC - Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
Journal of Ecology, ISSN 0022-0477, 7/2010, Volume 98, Issue 4, pp. 754 - 763
1. Ecological stoichiometry predicts important control of the relative abundance of the key elements carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) on trophic... 
Fauna | Plant-soil (below-ground) interactions | Forest ecology | Plant ecology | Plant litter | Human ecology | Tropical rain forests | Species | Forest litter | Forest soils | Soil ecology | Amazonian lowland forest | soil fauna | nutrient dynamics | detritivores | elemental ratios | nitrogen | litter chemistry | litter diversity | phosphorus | Detritivores | Litter diversity | Soil fauna | Litter chemistry | Elemental ratios | Phosphorus | Nitrogen | Nutrient dynamics | BIODIVERSITY | RATIOS | N-P STOICHIOMETRY | LEAF-LITTER | PLANT SCIENCES | RATES | ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | SPECIES RICHNESS | CONSEQUENCES | SOIL | ECOLOGY | DIVERSITY | Lignin | Human powered vehicles | Ecosystems | Carbon | Biological Sciences | Ecology | Naturvetenskap | Biologi | Natural Sciences | Ekologi
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12. Full Text Resource quality and stoichiometric constraints on stream ecosystem functioning
by HLADYZ, SALLY and GESSNER, MARK O and GILLER, PAUL S and POZO, JEŚUS and WOODWARD, GUY
Freshwater Biology, ISSN 0046-5070, 05/2009, Volume 54, Issue 5, pp. 957 - 970
Summary 1. Resource quality and stoichiometric imbalances in carbon : nutrient ratios between consumers and resources can influence key ecosystem processes. In... 
invasive plants | macroinvertebrate shredders | litter breakdown | aquatic fungi | ecological stoichiometry | Ecological stoichiometry | Invasive plants | Aquatic fungi | Litter breakdown | Macroinvertebrate shredders | FOOD QUALITY | ORGANIC-MATTER | GLOBAL CHANGE | WOODLAND STREAM | FEEDING PREFERENCES | MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY | ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION | TROPHIC DYNAMICS | NITROGEN-CONTENT | LEAF-LITTER DECOMPOSITION | RIPARIAN VEGETATION | Lignin | Ecosystems | Analysis | Detritus | Cellulose | Ecology | Universities and colleges
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