Sentence examples for composition of litter from inspiring English sources

Species composition of litter and invertebrates interacted strongly in their effects on litter disappearance rate.

We present density, distribution and composition of litter from the first large-scale mapping of sea bed litter in arctic and subarctic waters.

The composition of litter of the Alem and the Hipólito sites was relatively similar and both sites differ with respect to the Chauvin site.

The results of this study suggested that the initial composition of litter and its decomposition rate had a strong influence on the composition of SOM under the shelterbelts.

The biochemical composition of litter and the way that it decomposes are determined by the physiological characteristics of the plant species from which the material is derived.

Results suggested that it was important to account for the effect of temperature and rainfall on decomposition, but utilising data on the chemical composition of litter was less useful.

We further tested for correlations between the male-female composition of litters and maternal care and offspring measures.

Possible relationships between the male-female composition of litters and measures of maternal care and offspring development were tested by computing Pearson correlations between the number of males kept in each litter and (1) maternal LG average, (2) maternal LG variability, (3) novelty effect on competitive success, and (4) novelty effect on CORT habituation.

However, both the ordinal-level composition of the litter arthropod fauna and the species-level composition of the litter ant fauna were not dramatically altered by fire.

However, both the ordinal-level composition of the litter arthropod fauna and the species-level composition of the litter ant fauna were not dramatically different in the burned and unburned sites.

After we accounted for tree and litter bed size, fire history still had a significant effect on the composition of the litter bed with sticks, seeds and fragments generally increasing and leaves generally decreasing with greater time since fire.