Sentence examples for fine litter from inspiring English sources

Herbaceous vegetation, fine roots, coarse and fine litter, and soil carbon to 4 m depth were measured in subplots.

Invasion by the exotic annual grass Bromus tectorum has increased the cover and connectivity of fine litter in the sagebrush steppes of western North America.

Fine litter, branches, and foliage can be consumed and live trees can be killed during canopy fires, but the carbon lost from the pools of tree boles, downed wood, and soil is low [21].

Moisture in the fine litter fuels on the forest floor can vary throughout the day as atmospheric humidity changes, and these moisture levels have an important influence on the ignition probability and spread potential of a forest fire.

Fine litter C (0 25 mm diameter) tended to be higher in the pine forest than in the adjacent native vegetation and was significantly higher in the pine forest at five of the eight paired sites.

AGB: tree aboveground biomass (D > 1 cm), Palm: aboveground biomass of palms, HV: biomass of herbaceous and non-woody vegetation (D < 1 cm), CR: coarse root biomass (> 5 mm diameter), FR: fine root biomass (< 5 mm diameter), FL: fine litter, CWD: coarse woody debris, SC15: soil organic carbon to 15 cm depth, SC30: soil organic carbon to 30 cm depth.

The understorey was estimated 3%% of AGB, dead wood 5% 40% %, and fine litters only 5%% of that in the AGB (Brown 1997).

At each ant sampling site, three forest-floor fine-litter samples (including leaf, twig, and reproductive materials), each ca. 10 L in volume, were collected from three haphazardly selected nearby locations.

NuCycling-Succession represents the continuum of decomposition and associated changes in chemistry using annual cohorts of leaf and fine root litter.

Fire behavior in this region is driven primarily by fine fuels (litter and duff) and fuel continuity, both of which recover in relatively short periods of one to several years.

Lost leaf area means a smaller fraction of photosynthetically active radiation is captured by the canopy, and heterotrophic respiration is boosted by the metabolism of the pests/pathogens themselves [53] or by heterotrophic respiration of the increased leaf and fine root litter [54].