Sentence examples for decomposition of forest from inspiring English sources

Saturated peat soils are anoxic and nutrient poor, which impedes full decomposition of forest litter.

Due to relative high temperature all year round, the decomposition of forest residues happens fast, and this results in a rather thin layer of soil.

The decomposition of forest residues is shown in Fig.  1.

A model comparison describing the decomposition of forest residues showed remarkable differences in the model-calculated decomposition processes of two decomposition models (Palosuo and others 2008).

The higher organic carbon content in the top layer may be due to rapid decomposition of forest litter in a favorable environment.

The Dictyostelia (social amoebae) are common soil dwelling amoeba most often isolated from the leaf litter decomposition zone of forest soils [ 1].

Our results clearly indicated that reforestation can alter litter quality and soil conditions, and further affect the litter decomposition of subalpine forest ecosystem to projected climatic warming.

Instead, the model makes use of forest harvest and clearing estimates and average forest growth rates; and takes into account the time lags associated with decomposition of wood products.

Despite the importance of root quality for its decomposition, the effects of forest conversion and diameter size on root decomposition still remains poorly understood.

Their ubiquitous presence in nearly all woody material indicates that these beetles are the most important organisms in the early stages of forest decomposition.

The size of the deciduous trees and the degree of decomposition of dead wood in the young stands revealed that most of such substrates were legacies from the previous forest generation.