Influence of watershed suburbanization on leaf litter decomposition and microbial activity

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• suburbanization 100%
• leaf litter 86%
• microbial activity 69%
• watershed 52%
• decomposition 51%
• urbanization 29%
• oak 23%
• nutrient 23%
• Anthropocene 15%
• freshwater ecosystem 13%
• ecosystem process 13%
• human population 12%
• rate 11%
• food web 11%
• population density 11%
• chloride 9%
• mineralization 8%
• nitrate 8%
• effect 8%
• organic matter 7%
• biomass 7%
• sediment 5%

Agriculture & Biology

• microbial activity 74%
• plant litter 73%
• degradation 43%
• urbanization 41%
• Acer 28%
• Quercus 21%
• nutrients 21%
• freshwater ecosystems 15%
• leaves 15%
• fungal biomass 15%
• food webs 13%
• human population 12%
• mineralization 11%
• interspecific variation 11%
• soil organic matter 11%
• sediments 11%
• chemistry 10%
• population density 10%
• chlorides 10%
• nitrates 9%
• ecosystems 9%