- Title
- Necrobiome framework for bridging decomposition ecology of autotrophically and heterotrophically derived organic matter
- Creator
- Benbow, M.; Barton, Philip; Ulyshen, Michael; Beasley, James; DeVault, Travis
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/182679
- Identifier
- vital:16158
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1331
- Identifier
- ISBN:0012-9615 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Decomposition contributes to global ecosystem function by contributing to nutrient recycling, energy flow, and limiting biomass accumulation. The decomposer organisms influencing this process form diverse, complex, and highly dynamic communities that often specialize on different plant or animal resources. Despite performing the same net role, there is a need to conceptually synthesize information on the structure and function of decomposer communities across the spectrum of dead plant and animal resources. A lack of synthesis has limited cross-disciplinary learning and research in important areas of ecosystem and community ecology. Here we expound on the “necrobiome” concept and develop a framework describing the decomposer communities and their interactions associated with plant and animal resource types within multiple ecosystems. We outline the biotic structure and ecological functions of the necrobiome, along with how the necrobiome fits into a broader landscape and ecosystem context. The expanded necrobiome model provides a set of perspectives on decomposer communities across resource types, and conceptually unifies plant and animal decomposer communities into the same framework, while acknowledging key differences in processes and mechanisms. This framework is intended to raise awareness among researchers, and advance the construction of explicit, mechanistic hypotheses that further our understanding of decomposer community contributions to biodiversity, the structure and function of ecosystems, global nutrient recycling and energy flow. © 2018 by the Ecological Society of America
- Publisher
- Ecological Society of America
- Relation
- Ecological Monographs Vol. 89, no. 1 (2019), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2018 by the Ecological Society of America
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4102 Ecological Applications; 3103 Ecology; Biodiversity; Carrion; Community assembly; Decomposition; Detritus; Ecosystem; Interactions; Litter; Microbial ecology; Nutrient cycling; Organic matter
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- Funder
- The Department of Entomology, AgBioResearch, the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University provided funding to M. E. Benbow. P. S. Barton. was funded by an Australian Research Council grant (DE150100026). This work was partially funded by a grant from the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice awarded (2014-DN-BX-K008) to H. R. Jordan, M. E. Benbow, and J. L. Pechal. M. E. Benbow and P. S. Barton contributed equally to leading this paper. Contributions of J. C. B. were partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under award # DE-EM0004391 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation and M. S. Strickland was partially supported by a National Science Foundation grant (1556753). Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Philip Barton” is provided in this record**
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