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Articles | Volume 24, issue 1
Articles | Volume 24, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-24-11-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/we-24-11-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 24, issue 1
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23 Feb 2024
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Disturbance can slow down litter decomposition, depending on severity of disturbance and season: an example from Mount Kilimanjaro

Juliane Röder, Tim Appelhans, Marcell K. Peters, Thomas Nauss, and Roland Brandl

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We studied rates of litter decomposition in natural and disturbed vegetation on elevation gradients of Mount Kilimanjaro to disentangle effects of climate and disturbance. Decomposition was slower in disturbed than in natural forests, but we did not find a negative effect of disturbance for non-forest vegetation. Decomposition slowed down with increasing land-use intensity, but only in the warm wet season. Temperature and humidity were the most important drivers of decomposition in all analyses.
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