• Litter type and termites regulate root decomposition across contrasting savanna land-uses 

      Smith, Stuart; Speed, James David Mervyn; Bukombe, John; Hassan, Shombe Ntaraluka; Lyamuya, Richard Daniel; Mtweve, Philipo Jacob; Sundsdal, Anders; Graae, Bente Jessen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Decomposition is a vital ecosystem process, increasingly modified by human activity. Theoretical frameworks and empirical studies that aim to understand the interplay between human land-use, macro-fauna and decomposition ...
    • Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization 

      Sarneel, Judith M.; Hefting, Mariet M.; Sandén, Taru; van den Hoogen, Johan; Routh, Devin; Adhikari, Bhupendra S.; Alatalo, Juha M.; Aleksanyan, Alla; Althuizen, Inge; Alsafran, Mohammed H S A; Atkins, Jeff W.; Augusto, Laurent; Aurela, Mika; Azarov, Aleksej V.; Barrio, Isabel C.; Beier, Claus; Bejarano, María D; Benham, Sue E.; Berg, Björn; Bezler, Nadezhda V.; Björnsdóttir, Katrín; Bolinder, Martin A.; Carbognani, Michele; Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto; Chelli, Stefano; Chistotin, Maxim V.; Christiansen, Casper Tai; Courtois, Pascal; Crowther, Thomas W.; Dechoum, Michele S.; Djukic, Ika; Duddigan, Sarah; Egerton-Warburton, Louise M.; Fanin, Nicolas; Fantappiè, Maria; Fares, Silvano; Fernandes, Geraldo W.; Filippova, Nina V.; Fliessbach, Andreas; Fuentes, David; Godoy, Roberto; Grünwald, Thomas; Guzmán, Gema; Hawes, Joseph; He, Yue; Hero, Jean-Marc; Hess, Laura L.; Hogendoorn, Katja; Høye, Toke T.; Jans, Wilma W P; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S; Keller, Sabina; Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian; Kuz'menko, Natalya N.; Larsen, Klaus S.; Laudon, Hjalmar; Lembrechts, Jonas J.; Li, Junhui; Limousin, Jean-Marc; Lukin, Sergey M.; Marques, Renato; Marín, César; McDaniel, Marshall D.; Meek, Qi; Merzlaya, Genrietta E.; Michelsen, Anders; Montagnani, Leonardo; Mueller, Peter; Murugan, Rajasekaran; Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Nolte, Stefanie; Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl; Okafor, Bernard N.; Okorkov, Vladimir V.; Onipchenko, Vladimir G.; Orozco, María C; Parkhurst, Tina; Peres, Carlos A.; Petit Bon, Matteo; Petraglia, Alessandro; Pingel, Martin; Rebmann, Corinna; Scheffers, Brett R.; Schmidt, Inger; Scholes, Mary C.; Sheffer, Efrat; Shevtsova, Lyudmila K.; Smith, Stuart; Sofo, Adriano; Stevenson, Pablo R.; Strouhalová, Barbora; Sundsdal, Anders; Sühs, Rafael B.; Tamene, Gebretsadik; Thomas, Haydn J D; Tolunay, Duygu; Tomaselli, Marcello; Tresch, Simon; Tucker, Dominique L.; Ulyshen, Michael D.; Valdecantos, Alejandro; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vanguelova, Elena I.; Verheyen, Kris; Wang, Xuhui; Yahdjian, Laura; Yumashev, Xaris S.; Keuskamp, Joost A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The breakdown of plant material fuels soil functioning and biodiversity. Currently, process understanding of global decomposition patterns and the drivers of such patterns are hampered by the lack of coherent large-scale ...
    • Teatime for termites: Understanding the impact of human land-use and climate on termite and microbial litter decomposition 

      Sundsdal, Anders (Master thesis, 2019)
      Nedbrytning av planter er en fundamental underliggende prosess for næringssyklus og økosystemproduktivitet. Nedbrytningshastigheten i savanneøkosystemene er avhengige av både jordmikrober og makrofauna, hvor termitter er ...
    • Teatime in the Serengeti: macrodetritivores sustain recalcitrant plant litter decomposition across human-modified tropical savannahs 

      Sundsdal, Anders; Graae, Bente Jessen; Speed, James David Mervyn; Bukombe, John; Mtweve, Philipo Jacob; Arneberg, Marit K.; Haukenes, Vilde; Grevskott, Ragnhild TH.; Smith, Stuart (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background and aims Intensification of savannah land-use is predicted to negatively influence soil biodiversity and functioning such as litter decomposition by detritivores. Loss of macrodetritivores, particularly termites, ...