Decay Rates, Nitrogen Fluxes, and Decomposer Communiies of Single‐ and Mixed‐Species Foliar Litter

Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems

1979 • 4,436 citations

Energy Storage and the Balance of Producers and Decomposers in Ecological Systems

1963 • 3,579 citations

Nitrogen and Lignin Control of Hardwood Leaf Litter Decomposition Dynamics

1982 • 2,616 citations

Interactions of Bacteria, Fungi, and their Nematode Grazers: Effects on Nutrient Cycling and Plant Growth

1985 • 1,112 citations

The Role of Microarthropods in Decomposition and Mineralization Processes

1984 • 971 citations

Effect of habitat and substrate quality on Douglas fir litter decomposition in western Oregon

1977 • 409 citations

Leaching, accumulation and release of nitrogen in decomposing forest litter

1981 • 398 citations

A Technique for the Quantitative Estimation of Soil Micro-organisms: With a Statistical Note by

1948 • 392 citations

Vital staining of fungi in pure cultures and in soil with fluorescein diacetate

1977 • 334 citations

The use of fluorescein isothiocyanate in the determination of the bacterial biomass of grassland soil

1970 • 300 citations

The Influence of Arthropods on Ecosystems

1984 • 247 citations

The Role of Mites and Nematodes in Early Stages of Buried Litter Decomposition in a Desert

1981 • 218 citations

Metabolic and faunal activity in litters of tree mixtures compared with pure stands

1988 • 213 citations

Soil fungi: Relationships between hyphal activity and staining with fluorescein diacetate

1984 • 173 citations

Interaction between two decomposer basidiomycetes and a collembolan under Sitka spruce: Grazing and its potential effects on fungal distribution and litter decomposition

1984 • 169 citations

Abiotic and Biotic Factors in Litter Decomposition in a Sermiarid Grassland

1979 • 159 citations

Effects of collembolan grazing on fungal colonization of leaf litter

1979 • 159 citations

Influence of Grazing by Collembola on the Activity of Senescent Fungal Colonies Grown on Media of Different Nutrient Concentration

1981 • 150 citations

The inhibitory effect of oak leaf litter tannins on the growth of fungi, in relation to litter decomposition

1971 • 133 citations

Effect of collembolan grazing upon nitrogen and cation leaching from decomposing leaf litter

1982 • 124 citations

Nutrient release from decomposing foliar litter of three tree species with spicial reference to calcium, magnesium and potassium dynamics

1988 • 104 citations

Nematode trophic structure in conventional and no-tillage agroecosystems.

1986 • 94 citations

Effects of microarthropods on the seasonal dynamics of nutrients in forest litter

1980 • 91 citations

Nutrients in forest litter treated with naphthalene and simulated throughfall: A field microcosm study

1983 • 84 citations

The Roles of Terrestrial Saprophagous Arthropods in Forest Soils: Current Status of Concepts

1977 • 78 citations

Biological Aspects of Nitrogen Mineralization in Humus from a Pine Forest Podsol Incubated under Different Moisture and Temperature Conditions

1981 • 67 citations

Influence of Oak in Pine Forests of Central Arizona on Selected Nutrients of Forest Floor and Soil

1987 • 56 citations

Decomposition of Loblolly Pine Needles With and Without Addition of Dogwood Leaves

1968 • 52 citations

Decomposition and nitrogen dynamics of surface weed residues in no-tillage agroecosystems under drought conditions: Influence of resource quality on the decomposer community

1989 • 50 citations

A two‐year study of leaf litter decomposition as related to macroclimatic factors and microarthropod abundance in the southern Appalachians

1983 • 49 citations

Nitrogen availability beneath pure spruce and mixed larch+spruce stands growing on a deep peat

1986 • 45 citations

Mass Loss and Nutrient Changes in Decomposing Upland Oak and Mesic Mixed‐Hardwood Leaf Litter

1987 • 41 citations

Inhibition of fungi by gallic acid in relation to growth on leaves and litter

1979 • 30 citations

Nitrogen availability beneath pure spruce and mixed larch + spruce stands growing on a deep peat

1986 • 28 citations

Resource quality and trophic responses to simulated throughfall: Effects on decomposition and nutrient flux in a no-tillage agroecosystem

1989 • 22 citations

Moisture content and water potential of abscissed leaves in relation to decay

1984 • 15 citations