“…Decomposer nutritional modes affect CO 2 evolution and organic inputs to the soil (Berg and McClaugherty, 2008), as well as carbon content, metalbinding, redox, permeability, and sorption in resulting residues (Ryp a cek and Ryp a ckov a, 1975; Gilbertson, 1980;Jurgensen et al, 1997;Filley et al, 2002;Song et al, 2012;Harmon et al, 2013). Fungal mycelial networks further connect above-with belowground pools and create an avenue for element translocation into and out of deadwood (Ostrofsky et al, 1997;Boddy, 1999;Connolly et al, 1999;Liew and Schilling, 2012). This capacity for a rotting log to be an element sink, as well as an element source, will affect its suitability as a nurse log (Harmon and Franklin, 1989) and its ability to buffer stands against element losses through leaching, etc., thus contributing to overall forest health (e.g., exchangeable Ca, Shortle and Smith, 1988;Shortle et al, 2012).…”