LIDET related publications as of March 30, 2011

 

Adair, E. C., W. J.  Parton, S. J. Del Grosso, W. L. Silver, M. E. Harmon, S. A. Hall, I.  C. Burke, and S. C. Hart. 2008. A simple three pool model accurately describes patterns of long-term, global litter decomposition in the Long-term Intersite Decomposition Experiment Team (LIDET) data set. Global Change Biology114:2636-2660. PDF

 

Bolster, K. L., M. E. Martin, and J. D. Aber.  1996.  Determination of carbon fraction and nitrogen concentration in tree foliage by near infrared reflectance: a comparison of statistical methods.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26:590-600. PDF

 

Bontti, E. E., J. P. DeCant, S. M. Munson, M. Gathany, A. Przeszlowska, M. L. Haddix, S. M. Owens, I. C. Burke, W. J. Parton and M. E. Harmon. 2009. Litter decomposition in grasslands of Central North America (US Great Plains).  Global Change Biology 15:1356-1363. PDF 

 

Bryant, D.M., Holland, E.A., Seastedt, T.R., Walker, M.D. 1998. Analysis of litter decomposition in an alpine tundra. Canadian Journal of Botany 76:1295-1304 PDF

 

Currie, W. S. 1995.  Forest Floor Leachate Biogeochemistry and Decomposition Dynamics.  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.  184 pp.

 

Currie, W. S. and J. D. Aber.  1997.  Modeling leaching as a decomposition process in humid, montane forests.  Ecology 78(6): 1844-1860. PDF

 

Currie, W. S., K. J. Nadelhoffer and J. D. Aber. 1999. Soil detrital processes controlling the movement of 15N tracers to forest vegetation. Ecological Applications 9:87-102. PDF

 

Currie, W.S., M. E Harmon,  I. C. Burke, S. C. Hart, W. J. Parton and W. L. Silver. 2010. Cross-biome transplants of plant litter over a decade reveal both extension and limitation of the climate-litter quality paradigm. Global Change Biology 16:1744-1761. PDF

Cusack, D. F., W.W. Chou, W. H. Yang, M. E. Harmon, W. L. Silver, and LIDET. 2009. Controls on Long-Term Root and Leaf Litter Decomposition in Neotropical Forests.  Global Change Biology 15:1339-1355. PDF

 

Gholz, H. L, D. A. Wedin, S. M. Smitherman, M. E. Harmon, and W. J. Parton.  2000.  Long-term dynamics of pine and hardwood litter in contrasting environments: Toward a global model of decomposition.  Global Change Biology 6:751-765. PDF

 

Harmon, M. E., W. L. Silver, I. C. Burke, B. Fasth, W. Parton, and LIDET.  2009. Long-term patterns of mass loss during the decomposition of leaf and fine root litter: An across site comparison. Global Change Biology 15:1320-1338. PDF

 

Harmon, M. E. 2000.  Decomposition of the third kind: Results form the LIDET project.  pp. 114 In: The Ecological Society of America 85th Annual Meeting, August 6-10, 1999.  Snowbird, Utah. 

 

Harmon, M. E.  1998.  Establishing a long-term, broad-scale ecosystem experiment on climate versus litter controls of litter decomposition.  p. 182 In: A. Farina, J. Kennedy, and V. Bassu, editors, 7th International Congress of Ecology: New tasks for ecologists after Rio 1992. INTERCOL, Florence, Italy

 

Harmon, M. E.  1999.  Crossing borders: Continental-scale patterns of decomposition.  1st Annual Meeting of the North American Regional LTER Network.  August 7, 1999.  Spokane, Washington. 

 

Harmon, M. E. and K. Lajtha.  1999.  Analysis of detritus and organic horizons for mineral and organic constituents.  pp 143-165 In  Robertson, G. P., C. S. Bledsoe, D. C. Coleman, and P. Sollins editors, Standard Soil Methods for Long Term Ecological Research, Oxford University Press, New York. 

 

Harmon, M. E., K. J. Nadelhoffer, and J. M. Blair.  1999.  Measuring decomposition, nutrient turnover, and stores in plant litter.  pp 202-240 In  Robertson, G. P., C. S. Bledsoe, D. C. Coleman, and P. Sollins editors, Standard Soil Methods for Long Term Ecological Research, Oxford University Press, New York.  PDF

 

Long-Term Intersite Decomposition Experiment Team.  1995.  Meeting the challenge of long-term, broad-scale ecological experiments. LTER Publication No. 19.  U.S. LTER Network Office, Seattle, WA.23 pp. PDF

 

Moorhead, D. L., W. S. Currie, E. B. Rastetter, W. J. Parton, and M. E. Harmon.  1999.  Climate and litter quality controls on decomposition: an analysis of modeling approaches.  Global Climate Change 13:575-589.  PDF

 

O'Lear, H. A., T. R. Seastedt, J. M. Briggs, J. M. Blair, and R. A. Ramundo.  1996.  Fire and topographic effects on decomposition rates and N dynamics of buried wood in tallgrass prairie.  Soil Biol. Biochem. 28:323-329.  PDF

 

Parton, W. J., D. S. Ojima, C. V. Cole, and D. S. Shimel.  1994.   A general model for soil organic matter dynamics: sensitivity to litter chemistry, texture, and management.  Soil Science Society of America Special Publication 39:147-167. 

 

Parton, W., Silver, W., Burke, I., Grassens, L., Harmon, M.E., Currie, W., King, J., Adair, C., Brandt, L., Hart, S., Fasth, B.  2007.  Global-scale similarities in nitrogen release patterns during long-term decomposition.  Science 315: 361-364. PDF

 

Smith, A. C., J. S. Bhatti, H.Chen, M. E. Harmon, and P. A. Arp.  2011.  Modeling above- and below-ground loss and N dynamics in woodend dowels (LIDET) placed across North and Central American biomes at the decadal time scale.   Ecological Modelling 222:2276-2290. PDF

 

Toumi, M., T. Thum, H. Javinen, S. Fronzek, B,. Berg, M. Harmon, J. A. Trofymow, S. Sevano, and J. Liski.  2009. Leaf litter decomposition-Estimates of global variability based on Yasso07 model. Ecological Modelling 220: 3362-3371. PDF