Results of general linear models testing effects of detritivore and plant litter species identity on decomposition rates (measured as the proportion of leaf weight loss per capita).

Factors were the presence or absence (coded as 1 or 0) of each species: Ak, Anisocentropus kirramus; Lv, Lectrides varians; Tg, Triplectides gonetalus; Ab, Apodytes brachystyllis; Eb, Endiandra bessaphila; Cl, Cryptocarya leucophylla. Degrees of freedom, sum of squares, F statistic, P-values, and the direction of each effect are shown: + or − indicate, respectively, that presence of a species in a treatment resulted in faster or slower decomposition than in treatments without it.