We acknowledge the Ramat Hanadiv team for the administrative expertise and technical assistance, the Yitzhak Hadar laboratory for their assistance with gas-chromatography measurement, Andreas Fangmeier for help with stable isotope and elemental analyses, Shabtai Cohen for support with climate monitoring, Terry Chapin and Efrat Sheffer for helpful comments to the manuscript, and Avner Zinger, Dor Amper, Hen Karo, Meron Berniker, Mor Ashkenazi, Nili Bruckenthal, and Ohad Abramovich for field and laboratory assistance. This research project was financially supported by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), the Jewish National Fund (KKL), the Ring Family Foundation, a Transnational Access Project of INCREASE (An Integrated Network on Climate Research Activities on Shrubland Ecosystems) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (project CGL2011-24748/PHOTODEG). The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, Israel; Department of Biogeography and Global Change, National Museum of Natural History, Spanish Scientific Council (CSIC), C/Serrano 115bis, Madrid, Spain; Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, United States; Ramat Hanadiv Nature Park, Zichron Yakov, Israel; Faculty of Agriculture/Landscape Management, University of Applied Sciences HTW-Dresden, Pillnitzer Platz 2, Dresden, Germany; DIBAF (Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-Food and Forest Systems), University of Tuscia, Via San Camillo de Lellis, Viterbo, Italy; Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Pkwy, Reno, NV, United States
Recommended Citation:
Gliksman D.,Rey A.,Seligmann R.,et al. Biotic degradation at night, abiotic degradation at day: positive feedbacks on litter decomposition in drylands[J]. Global Change Biology,2017-01-01,23(4)