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Controls on Coarse Wood Decay in Temperate Tree Species: Birth of the LOGLIFE Experiment |
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| Authors: | Johannes H C Cornelissen Ute Sass-Klaassen Lourens Poorter Koert van Geffen Richard S P van Logtestijn Jurgen van Hal Leo Goudzwaard Frank J Sterck René K W M Klaassen Grégoire T Freschet Annemieke van der Wal Henk Eshuis Juan Zuo Wietse de Boer Teun Lamers Monique Weemstra Vincent Cretin Rozan Martin Jan den Ouden Matty P Berg Rien Aerts Godefridus M J Mohren Mariet M Hefting |
| Institution: | 1.Systems Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences,VU University,Amsterdam,The Netherlands;2.Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Centre for Ecosystems,Wageningen University,Wageningen,The Netherlands;3.Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group,Wageningen University,Wageningen,The Netherlands;4.SHR Timber Research,Wageningen,The Netherlands;5.Department of Microbial Ecology,Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW),Wageningen,The Netherlands;6.Department of Forest Ecology and Management at SLU,Ume?,Sweden;7.Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology,Utrecht University,Utrecht,The Netherlands;8.Animal Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences,VU University,Amsterdam,The Netherlands |
| Abstract: | Dead wood provides a huge terrestrial carbon stock and a habitat to wide-ranging organisms during its decay. Our brief review highlights that, in order to understand environmental change impacts on these functions, we need to quantify the contributions of different interacting biotic and abiotic drivers to wood decomposition. LOGLIFE is a new long-term ‘common-garden’ experiment to disentangle the effects of species’ wood traits and site-related environmental drivers on wood decomposition dynamics and its associated diversity of microbial and invertebrate communities. This experiment is firmly rooted in pioneering experiments under the directorship of Terry Callaghan at Abisko Research Station, Sweden. LOGLIFE features two contrasting forest sites in the Netherlands, each hosting a similar set of coarse logs and branches of 10 tree species. LOGLIFE welcomes other researchers to test further questions concerning coarse wood decay that will also help to optimise forest management in view of carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation. |
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