Sources

If you would like to read about this topic in detail, here are my sources.

Primary Literature:

Aerts, R. (1997). Climate , leaf litter chemistry and leaf litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems : a
     triangular relationship. Oikos, 79(3), 439-449.

Aerts, R. (2006). The freezer defrosting: global warming and litter decomposition rates in cold biomes. Journal
     of Ecology, 94(4), 713-724. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01142.x

Ewel, B. Y. J. J. (1976). Litter Fall and Leaf Decomposition  in a Tropical Forest Succession in Eastern
     Guatemala, 64(1), 293-308.

Hobbie, S. (1996). Temperature and Plant Species Control Over Litter Decomposition in Alaskan Tundra.
     Ecological Monographs, 66(4), 503-522.


Quested, H.M., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Press, M.C., Callaghan, T.V.,  Aerts, R., Trosien,  E et al. (2003) Litter
     decomposition of sub-arctic  plant  species  with differing  nitrogen  economies: a potential functional role for
     hemiparasites. Ecology, 84, 3209-3221.


Raich,  J.W & Schlesinger, W.H. (1992) The  global  carbon dioxide flux in soil respiration  and its relationship
     to vege- tation and climate. Tellus,  44B, 81-99.


Robinson, C.H., Wookey, PA.,  Parsons, A.N.,  Potter, J.A., Lee, J.A., Callaghan, T.V. et al. (1995)
     Responses of  plant litter  decomposition  and nitrogen  mineralisation  to simulated environmental  change
     in a high arctic  polar semi-desert  and a subarctic dwarf shrub heath. Oikos, 74, 503-512.


Rustad, L.E.,  Campbell, J.L., Marion,  G.M.,  Norby,  R.J., Mitchell, M.J., Hartley, A.E. et al. (2001) A
     meta-analysis of the  response  of soil  respiration,  net  nitrogen  mineralization, and aboveground plant
     growth  to experimental  ecosystem warming. Oecologia, 126, 543-562.

Websites:

http://www.sewanee.edu/Forestry_Geology/watershed_web/Emanuel/DecompStudy/Decomp_SET.html


http://cbc.amnh.org/center/pubs/pdfs/leaflitter.pdf