Authors
SD Tiegs, KA Capps, DM Costello, JP Schmidt, CJ Patrick, JJ Follstad Shah, CJ LeRoy, CELLDEX Consortium‡, Vicenç Acuña, Ricardo Albariño, Daniel C Allen, Cecilia Alonso, Patricio Andino, Clay Arango, Jukka Aroviita, Marcus VM Barbosa, Leon A Barmuta, Colden Baxter, Brent Bellinger, Luz Boyero, Lyubov Bragina, Lee E Brown, Andreas Bruder, Denise A Bruesewitz, Francis Burdon, Marcos Callisto, Antonio Camacho, Cristina Canhoto, María M Castillo, Eric Chauvet, Joanne Clapcott, Fanny Colas, Checo Colón-Gaud, Julien Cornut, Verónica Crespo-Pérez, Wyatt F Cross, Joseph Culp, Michael Danger, Olivier Dangles, Elvira de Eyto, Alison M Derry, Veronica Díaz Villanueva, Michael M Douglas, Arturo Elosegi, Andrea C Encalada, Sally Entrekin, Rodrigo Espinosa, Verónica Ferreira, Carmen Ferriol, Kyla M Flanagan, Alexander S Flecker, Tadeusz Fleituch, André Frainer, Nikolai Friberg, Paul C Frost, Erica A Garcia, Liliana García-Lago, Pavel Ernesto García Soto, Mark O Gessner, Sudeep Ghate, Darren P Giling, Alan Gilmer, José Francisco Gonçalves Jr, Rosario Karina Gonzales, Manuel AS Graça, Mike Grace, Natalie A Griffiths, Hans-Peter Grossart, François Guérold, Vlad Gulis, Pablo E Gutiérrez-Fonseca, Luiz U Hepp, Scott Higgins, Takuo Hishi, Joseph Huddart, John Hudson, Moss Imberger, Carlos Iñiguez-Armijos, Mark W Isken, Tomoya Iwata, David J Janetski, Andrea E Kirkwood, Aaron A Koning, Sarian Kosten, Kevin A Kuehn, Hjalmar Laudon, Peter R Leavitt, Aurea L Lemes da Silva, Shawn Leroux, Peter J Lisi, Richard MacKenzie, Amy M Marcarelli, Frank O Masese, Peter B McIntyre, Brendan G McKie, Adriana Medeiros, Kristian Meissner, Marko Miliša, Shailendra Mishra, Yo Miyake, Ashley Moerke, Shorok Mombrikotb, Rob Mooney, Timothy Moulton, Timo Muotka, Junjiro Negishi, Vinicius Neres-Lima, Mika L Nieminen, Jorge Nimptsch, Jakub Ondruch, Riku Paavola, Isabel Pardo, Edwin THM Peeters, Jesus Pozo, Aaron Prussian, Estefania Quenta, Brian Reid, John S Richardson, Anna Rigosi, José Rincón, Geta Risnoveanu, Christopher T Robinson, Lorena Rodríguez-Gallego, Todd V Royer, James A Rusak, Anna C Santamans, Géza B Selmeczy, Gelas Simiyu, Agnija Skuja, Jerzy Smykla, Ryan Sponseller, Kandikere R Sridhar, Aaron Stoler, Christopher M Swan, Franco Teixeira de Mello, Jonathan D Tonkin, Sari Uusheimo, Allison M Veach, Sirje Vilbaste, Lena B-M Vought, Chiao-Ping Wang, Jackson R Webster, Paul B Wilson, Stefan Woelfl, Guy Woodward, Marguerite A Xenopoulos, Adam G Yates, Chihiro Yoshimura, Catherine M Yule, Yixin Zhang
Publication date
2024/5/30
Journal
Science
Pages
eadn1262
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
Rivers and streams contribute to global carbon cycling by decomposing immense quantities of terrestrial plant matter. However, decomposition rates are highly variable and large-scale patterns and drivers of this process remain poorly understood. Using a cellulose-based assay to reflect the primary constituent of plant detritus, we generated a predictive model (81% variance explained) for cellulose decomposition rates across 514 globally distributed streams. A large number of variables were important for predicting decomposition, highlighting the complexity of this process at the global scale. Predicted cellulose decomposition rates, when combined with genus-level litter quality attributes, explain published leaf-litter-decomposition rates with impressive accuracy (70% variance explained). Our global map provides estimates of rates across vast understudied areas of Earth, and reveals rapid decomposition across …
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