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.
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 26:590600.
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.
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 76:12951304
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.
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.
Currie, W.S., M. E Harmon, I. C. Burke, S. C. Hart, W. J. Parton and W. L.
Silver. in press. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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and management. Soil Science Society of America Special Publication 39:147167.
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.
Smith, A. C., J. S. Bhatti, Chen Hua, M. E. Harmon, and P. A. Arp. In press.
Modelling above- and belowground mass loss and N dynamics in wooden
dowels (LIDET) placed across North America and Central America Biomes at
the decadal time scale. Ecological Modelling
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: 33623371.
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