Methods to Study Litter Decomposition : A Practical Guide /

This edited volume is an extensive collection of methods for investigating plant litter dynamics in ecosystems. Particular emphasis is placed on litter decomposition in streams and rivers. The presented methods range from analyses of chemical and physical litter properties to the taxonomic and funct...

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Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Bärlocher, Felix (Editor), Gessner, Mark O. (Editor), Graça, Manuel A.S (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:	2nd ed. 2020.
Subjects:	Ecosystems. Microbial ecology. Aquatic ecology . Geobiology. Biodiversity. Biology-Technique. Microbial Ecology. Freshwater & Marine Ecology. Biogeosciences. Biological Techniques. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Litter dynamics: chapter 1. Litter Input (Arturo Elosegi and Jesús Pozo)
Chapter 2. Leaf Retention (Arturo Elosegi)
chapter 3. Manipulating Litter Retention in Streams (Michael Dobson)
chapter 4. Coarse Benthic Organic Matter (Jesús Pozo and Arturo Elosegi)
chapter5. Leaching (Felix Bärlocher)
Chapter 6. Leaf Mass Loss Estimated by the Litter-Bag Technique (Felix Bärlocher)
Chapter7. Determining Litter Mass Loss by the Plant Tagging Approach (Kevin A. Kuehn and Mark O. Gessner)
Chapter 8. Wood Decomposition (Arturo Elosegi, Maite Arroita and Libe Solagaistua)
Chapter9. Decomposition of Fine Particulate Organic Matter (Yoshimura Chihiro)
Chapter10. Coarse Particulate Organic Matter Budgets (Jesús Pozo and Jon Molinero)
Part 2. Chemical and Physical Leaf Properties. Chapter11. Total Phosphorus, Nitrogen, and Carbon in Leaf Litter (Mogens R. Flindt, Ana I. Lillebø, Javier Pérez and Verónica Ferreira)
Chapter12. Total Protein (Mark O. Baerlocher)
Chapter13. Free Amino Acids (Shawn D. Mansfield and Mark O. Baerlocher)
chapter14. Determination of Total Carbohydrates (Shawn D. Mansfield)
chapter15. Determination of Soluble Carbohydrates (Letitia da Ros, Faride Unda, Shawn D. Mansfield)
Chapter16. Total Lipids (Mark O. Gessner and Paul T. M. Neumann)
Chapter17. Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Decomposing Leaf Litter (Eric Von Elert)
Chapter18. Total Phenolics (Felix Bärlocher and Manuel A.S. Graça)
Chapter19. Radial Diffusion Assay for Tannins (Manuel A.S. Graça and Felix Bärlocher)
Chapter20. Acid Butanol Assay to Determine Bulk Concentrations of Condensed Tannins (Mark O. Gessner and Daniel Steiner)
Chapter21. Lignin and Cellulose (Mark O. Gessner)
Chapter22. Physical Litter Properties: Leaf Toughness and Tensile Strength (Manuel A.S. Graça and Martin Zimmer)
Part 3. Microbial Decomposers. Chapter23. Techniques for Handling Ingoldian Fungi (Enrique Descals)
Chapter24. Maintenance of Aquatic Hyphomycete Cultures (Ludmila Marvanová)
Chapter 25. An Illustrated Key to the Common Temperate Species of Aquatic Hyphomycetes (Vladislav Gulis, Ludmila Marvanová and Enrique Descals)
Chapter26. Sporulation by Aquatic Hyphomycetes (Felix Bärlocher)
Chapter 27. Ergosterol as a Measure of Fungal Biomass (Mark O. Gessner)
Chapter 28. Fungal Growth Rates and Production (Keller Suberkropp, Mark O. Gessner and Kevin A. Kuehn)
Chapter 29. Bacterial Abundance and Biomass Determination in Plant Litter by Epifluorescence Microscopy (Nanna Buesing and Mark O. Gessner)
Chapter 30. Growth and Production of Litter-Associated Bacteria (Nanna Buesing, Mark O. Gessner and Kevin A. Kuehn)
Chapter 31. Isolation of Cellulose-Degrading Bacteria (Jürgen Marxsen)
Chapter 32. ATP as a Measure of Microbial Biomass (Manuela Abelho)
Chapter 33. Respiration of Litter-Associated Microbes and Invertebrates (Manuel A.S. Graça and Manuela Abelho)
Part 4. Molecular Microbial Community Analyses. Chapter34. Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-Rflp) to Estimate Fungal Diversity (Liliya G. Nikolcheva and Felix Bärlocher)
Chapter 35. Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) to Estimate Fungal Diversity (Liliya G. Nikolcheva and Felix Bärlocher)
Chapter36. Quantitative Real-Time PCR (qPCR) to Estimate Molecular Fungal Abundance (Christiane Baschien and J. Steffen C. Carl)
Chapter 37. Metabarcoding of Litter-associated Fungi and Bacteria (Sofia Duarte, Christian Wurzbacher and Sahadevan Seena)
Chapter 38. Identifying Active Members of Litter Fungal Communities by Precursor rRNA (Martina Štursová and Petr Baldrian)
Chapter 39. Gene Expression Analysis of Litter-Associated Fungi Using RNA-Seq (Elizabeth C. Bourne, Paul R. Johnston, Elisabeth Funk and Michael T. Monaghan)
Chapter 40. Metaproteomics of Litter-associated Fungi (Katharina M. Keiblinger and Katharina Riedel)
Part 5. Enzymatic Capabilities. Chapter 41. Extractellular Fungal Hydrolytic Enzyme Activity (Shawn D. Mansfield)
chapter 42. Cellulases (Martin Zimmer)
Chapter 43. Viscosimetric Determination of Endocellulase Activity (Björn Hendel and Jürgen Marxsen)
Chapter 44. Fluorometric Determination of The Activity of β-Glucosidase and other Extracellular Hydrolytic Enzymes (Björn Hendel and Jürgen Marxsen)
Chapter 45. Pectin-degrading Enzymes: Polygalacturonase and Pectin Lyase (Keller Suberkropp)
chapter 46. Lignin-degrading Enzymes: Phenoloxidase and Peroxidase (Björn Hendel, Robert L. Sinsabaugh and Jürgen Marxsen)
Chapter 47. Phenol Oxidation (Martin Zimmer)
Chapter 48. Proteinase Activity: Azocoll and Thin-layer Enzyme Assay (Manuel A.S. Graça and Felix Bärlocher)
Part 6. Litter Consumers. Chapter 49. Processing of Aquatic Invertebrates Colonizing Decomposing Litter (John S. Richardson)
chapter 50. Identifying Stream Invertebrates as Plant Litter Consumers (Luz Boyero, Richard G. Pearson, Ricardo J. Albariño, Marcos Callisto, Francisco Correa-Araneda, Andrea C. Encalada, Marcelo Moretti, Alonso Ramírez, April Sparkman, Christopher M. Swan, Catherine M. Yule and Manuel A.S. Graça)
chapter 51. Shredder Feeding and Growth Rates (Manuel A.S. Graça and José M. González)
chapter 52. Feeding Preferences (Cristina Canhoto, Manuel A.S. Graça and Felix Bärlocher)
chapter 53. Energy Budget of Shredders (Manuel A.S. Graça)
chapter 54. The Role of Shredders in Litter Dynamics at Stream Scale (José M. González and Manuel A.S. Graça)
Part 7. Litter Manipulations. Chapter 55. Manipulation of Leaf Litter Stoichiometry (Julio Arce-Funck, Vincent Felten, Michael Danger)
Chapter 56. Isotopic Labelling of Leaf-litter Nitrogen (Bernd Zeller, Severine Bienaimé and Etienne Dambrine)
Chapter 57. Decomposition and Consumption Tablets (DECOTABSs) (Gea H. van Der Lee, Ellard R. Hunting, J. Arie Vonk and Michiel H.S. Kraak)
chapter 58. Inoculation of Leaf Litter with Aquatic Hyphomycetes (Eric Chauvet)
Part 8. Data Analyses. Chapter 59. A Primer for Statistical Analysis (Felix Bärlocher)
Chapter 60. Determining Temperature-normalized Decomposition Rates (Mark O. Gessner and Frank Peeters)
Chapter 61. Biodiversity Analysis (Felix Bärlocher)
Chapter 62. A Bioinformatics Primer for the Analysis of Illumina MiSeq Data of Litter-associated Fungi and Bacteria (Sahadevan Seena, Sofia Duarte and Christian Wurzbacher)
Chapter 63. A Primer for Meta-Analysis (Verónica Ferreira and Felix Bärlocher).