@misc{Koechy2006,
  author    = {K{\"o}chy, Martin},
  title     = {Photodegradation of grass litter in semi-arid grasslands : a global perspective},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-12006},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {In a recent contribution in Nature (vol. 442, pp. 555-558) Austin \& Vivanco showed that sunlight is the dominant factor for decomposition of grass litter in a semi-arid grassland in Argentine. The quantification of this effect was portrayed as a novel finding. I put this result in the context of three other publications from as early as 1980 that quantified photodegradation. My synopsis shows that photodegradation is an important process in semi-arid grasslands in South America, North America and eastern Europe.},
  language  = {en}
}