Soil and litter chemistry, soil microbial communities and litter decomposition from tropical forest and oil palm

A study examining the interactions between soil chemistry, litter chemistry and soil microbial decomposers as controls on rates of litter decomposition across a tropical land use disturbance gradient. Co-located soil and litter samples were collected from old growth forest, moderately logged forest, heavily logged forest and oil palm plantations. Soil and litter were chemically characterised and soil bacterial and fungal community composition and abundance were measured. These were then combined in fully factorial ex-situ microcosms and measured litter decomposition rates at 3 time points during different stages of decomposition.

Authors

• Elias, Dafydd — UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster; Lancaster University
• Robinson, Samuel — Lancaster University
• Both, Sabine — University of New England, Australia; University of Aberdeen
• Goodall, Tim — UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford
• Majalap-Lee, Noreen — Sabah Forest Research Centre
• Ostle, Nick — Lancaster University
• McNamara, Niall — UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster

Keywords

• soil
• soil microbial communities
• PLFA
• litter decomposition
• litter
• functional dissimilarity

Funders

• UK NERC-funded Biodiversity And Land-use Impacts on Tropical Ecosystem Function (BALI) consortium (NE/K016377/1)

Permits

• Research — Sabah Biodiversity Centre (JKM/MBS.1000-2/2 JLD.5 (20))
• Export — Sabah Biodiversity Centre (JKM/MBS.1000-2/3 JLD.2 (70))

Worksheets

Files

• SAFE_Dataset.xlsx

Taxa

0 GBIF taxa, 0 sequence-derived taxa.