Effects of Litter Manipulation on Litter Decomposition in a Successional Gradients of Tropical Forests in Southern China

Hao Chen; Geshere A. Gurmesa; Lei Liu; Tao Zhang; Shenglei Fu; Zhanfeng Liu; Shaofeng Dong; Chuan Ma; Jiangming Mo

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099018

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Effects of Litter Manipulation on Litter Decomposition in a Successional Gradients of Tropical Forests in Southern China

Hao Chen,

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Geshere A. Gurmesa,

Affiliations Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, Aarhus, Denmark
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Lei Liu,

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Tao Zhang,

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Tropical Pratacultural Science, Zhanjiang Normal University, Zhanjiang, China
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Shenglei Fu,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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Zhanfeng Liu,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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Shaofeng Dong,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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Chuan Ma,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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Jiangming Mo

* E-mail: mojm@scib.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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Effects of Litter Manipulation on Litter Decomposition in a Successional Gradients of Tropical Forests in Southern China

Hao Chen,
Geshere A. Gurmesa,
Lei Liu,
Tao Zhang,
Shenglei Fu,
Zhanfeng Liu,
Shaofeng Dong,
Chuan Ma,
Jiangming Mo

Published: June 5, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099018

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