Publications

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Disentangling drivers of litter decomposition in a multi-continent network of tree diversity experiments. Science of The Total Environment, 159717. Desie, E., Zuo, J., Verheyen, K., Djukic, I., Van Meerbeek, K., Auge, H., Barsoum, N., Baum, C., Bruelheide, H., Eisenhauer, N., Feldhaar, H., Ferlian, O., Gravel, D., Jactel, H., Kappel Schmidt, I., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Meredieu, C., Mereu, S., Messier, C., Morillas, L., Nock, C., Paquette, A., Ponette, Q., Reich, P.B., Roales, J., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Seitz, S., Schmidt, A., Stefanski, A., Trogisch, S., Van-Halder, I., Weih, M., Williams, L.J., Yang, B., Muys, B. 2022
Effects of climate and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on early to mid-term stage litter decomposition across biomes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 90. Kwon, T., Shibata, H., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Schmidt, I.K., Larsen, K.S., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K., Lamarque, J.-F., Hagedorn, F., Eisenhauer, N., Djukic, I., TeaComposition Network 2021  

Ecosystem type drives tea litter decomposition and associated prokaryotic microbiome communities in freshwater and coastal wetlands at a continental scale. Science of The Total Environment, 782. Trevathan-Tackett, S.M., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Engelen, A. H., Paul H.York, P. H., Ola, A., Li, J., Kelleway, J. J., Jinks, K. I., Jackson, E., Fernanda Adame, M., Pendall, E., Lovelock, C., Connolly, R. M., Watson, A., Visby, I., Trethowan, A., Taylor, B., Roberts, T. N. B., Petch, J., Farrington, L., Djukic, I., Macreadie, P.I. 2021
The TeaComposition initiative: Unleashing the power of international collaboration to understand litter decomposition. Soil Organisms 93 (1),  73-78. Djukic, I., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Kappel Schmidt, I., Steenberg Larsen, K., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K., Trevathan-Tackett, S. M., Macreadie, P. I., Bierbaumer, M., Patoine, G., Eisenhauer,N.,  Guerra,C.A., Maestre, F.T., Hagedorn, F.,  Oggioni, A.,  Bergami,C.,  Magagna,B., Kwon,T.,  Shibata, H., & TeaComposition initiative 2021
Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity. Science, 371 (6526), 239-241. Guerra, C. A., Bardgett, R. D., Caon, L., Crowther, T.W., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Montanarella,L., Navarro, L. M., Orgiazzi, A., Singh,B. K., Tedersoo, L.,  Vargas-Rojas, R., Briones, M. J. I., Buscot, F.,  Cameron,E. K., Cesarz,S., Chatzinotas, A., Cowan, D. A.,  Djukic, I., van den Hoogen,J., Lehmann, A., Maestre, F. T., Marín, C., Reitz, T., Rillig, M. C., Smith, L. C., de Vries, F. T., Weigelt, A., Wall, D. H., Eisenhauer, N. 2021
Rapid recovery of carbon cycle processes after the cessation of chronic nutrient enrichment. Science of The Total Environment750, 140927. Mozdzer, T. J., Drew, S. E., Caplan, J. S., Weber, P. E., Deegan, L. A. 2020
Microsites and early litter decomposition patterns in the soil and forest canopy at regional scale. Biogeochemistry, 1-16. Aguilar-Cruz, Y., García-Franco, J. G., & Zotz, G. 2020

 

Microbial diversity-ecosystem function relationships across environmental gradients. Research Ideas and Outcomes 6: e52217. Heintz-Buschart,A., Guerra, C., Djukic, I., Cesarz, S., Chatzinotas, A., Patoine, P., Sikorski, J., Buscot, F., Küsel, K., Wegner, CE., Eisenhauer, N. 2020
The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx). Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(1), 22-37. Halbritter, A. H., De Boeck, H. J., Eycott, A. E., Reinsch, S., Robinson, D. A., Vicca, S., … & Gya, R. 2020
The direct effects of human-induced environmental changes on litter decomposition in temperate forest are eclipsed by their indirect effects via forest understory vegetation. Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry 138; 107579. Wang, B., Blondeel, H., Baeten, L., Djukic, I., De Lombaede, E., Verheyen, K 2019
Harmonized data on early stage litter decomposition using tea material across Japan. Ecological Research (ERE-2019-0038.R1). Suzuki, S., Ataka, M., Djukic, I., Enoki, T., Fukuzawa, K., Hirota, M., Hishi, T., Hiura, T., Hoshizaki, K., Ida, H., Iguchi, A., Ilmura, Y, Ise, T., Tanaka, K., Kina, Y., Kobayahi, H., Kominami, Y., Kurokawa, H., Makoto, K., Matsushita, M., Miyata, R., Muraoka, H., Nakaji, T., Nakamura, M., Niwa, S., Noh, NJ., Sato, T., Seino, T., Shibata, H., Suzuki, R., Takahashi, K., Tsunoda, T., Utsumi, Y., Watanabe, K. 2019
Early stage litter decomposition across biomes. Science of the Total Environment 628-629; 1369-1394. Djukic, I., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Kappel Schmidt, I., Steenberg Larsen, K., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K., TeaComposition et al. 2018
Towards harmonizing leaf litter decomposition studies using standard tea bags—a field study and model application. Forests7(8), 167. Didion, M., Repo, A., Liski, J., Forsius, M., Bierbaumer, M., Djukic, I. 2016

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Relative importance of climate, soil and plant functional traits during the early decomposition stage of standardized litter. Ecosystems, 1-15 Fanin, N., Bezaud, S., Sarneel, J. M., Cecchini, S., Nicolas, M., & Augusto, L. 2019
Effects of water content and mesh size on tea bag decomposition. bioRxiv Taiki, M.,  Ryota, A., Hiroki, T.,  Yoshimi, S. 2020
Not our cup of tea: the Tea Bag Index (Keuskamp et al. 2013) for assessing decomposition is problematic in most environments, due to macrofauna. Authorea Preprints Eggleton, P., Griffiths, H., Ashton, L., Law, S., Evans, T.A., Parr, K. 2020

 

Chemical Underpinning of the Tea Bag Index: An Examination of the Decomposition of Tea Leaves. Applied and Environmental Soil Science Duddigan, S., Shaw, L. J., Alexander, P. D.,  Collins, C. D. 2020
Tea Bag Index: a novel approach to collect uniform decomposition data across ecosystems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution4(11), 1070-1075. Keuskamp, J.A., Dingemans, B.J., Lehtinen, T., Sarneel, J.M., Hefting, M. 2013