Non‐negligible contribution of subordinates in community‐level litter decomposition: Deciduous trees in an evergreen world

Subordinate species have relatively low abundance compared to dominant species; however, they may contribute significantly to functional diversity and ecosystem functionality, particularly if they differ strongly from the dominants in key traits. Here we investigated whether this phenomenon might be applied to litter decomposition as a key carbon and nutrient cycling process. We hypothesized that species litter mass‐weighted predictions of...