Plant controls on decomposition rates: the benefits of restoring abandoned agricultural lands with native prairie grasses

Plant species can both directly and indirectly affect soil processes in various ways, including through functional traits related to the quantity and chemistry of biomass produced. Understanding how functional traits affect soil processes may be particularly important in restorations that specifical...

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Agricultural land
Agricultural soils
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Botany
Carbon content
Chemistry
Community composition
Control equipment industry
Decomposition
Ecology
Environmental restoration
Enzymatic activity
Enzymes
Forest soils
Grasses
Grasslands
Indigenous species
Life Sciences
Litter
Microclimate
Nitrogen cycle
Organic soils
Plant communities
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Plant species
Plants
Prairie soils
Prairies
Regular Article
Soil biochemistry
Soil chemistry
Soil ecology
Soil microbiology
Soil microorganisms
Soil Science & Conservation
Soil sciences
Soils
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