Sentence examples for for litterfall from inspiring English sources

Data for litterfall and C effluxes were often not available for the same wetland systems, making it difficult to make valid comparisons of C inputs and outputs.

For example forest ecosystem accounts for 70%% of litterfall (leaf), but woody litter increase with forest age, however in grassland ecosystem, the annual litterfall is very low due to very little aboveground perennial tissue (Lonsdale 1988).

Data availability was better for fine litterfall from the canopy, which was used in to calculate NPPtotal.

For the estimation of litterfall one litter trap (1 m × 1 m) was fixed on the forest floor at each of the seventy sampling plots.

For instance, seasonal patterns of litterfall have recently been shown to be important for the composition and activity of soil microbial communities, with consequences for decomposition and other soil processes (Pearse et al., 2013; Thoms and Gleixner, 2013).

The litter addition treatment was equivalent to natural levels of litterfall; tree saplings were planted in mesocosms for the root presence treatment and an unplanted control treatment was established that had no litter or root inputs.

We also quantified the litterfall for each tree species.

For Alectoria, there appeared to be a treatment-related pulse of litterfall that was more pronounced in the 70% removal than the 30% removal treatment unit.

Deposition patterns of litterfall components in relation to edges of openings indicated a heightened level of Alectoria litterfall along edges.

This is the first report of litterfall production of the Sundarbans mangrove forest, Bangladesh.

Leaf-fall was the dominant component of litterfall throughout the year.