Sentence examples for leaf litterfall from inspiring English sources
The tropical climate could cause multimodal peaks of leaf litterfall in mangroves in this region.
Mangroves have important ecological value due to their high productivity in the form of leaf litterfall.
An important assessment to make between the annual leaf litterfall rate (2.5 t C/ha−1yr−1) and the root litterfall rate, is the fact that root turnover contributes more mass to the detritus pool than leaf litterfall.
The transfer of C from foliage compartment to the litter compartment involved 100%% of herbaceous aboveground production plus 86%% of foliage production while the remaining amount, i.e., about 14%% of foliage production did not find its way into leaf litterfall.
About 14%% (0.51 Mg∙ha–1∙yr–1 in US and 0.26 Mg∙ha–1∙yr–1 in DS) of foliage production did not find its way into leaf litterfall.
Seasonal patterns of leaf recruitment (Figure 6A) in R. stylosa are highly correlated (r = 0.88, p < 0.01) with those of stipule litterfall (Figure 6B), while seasonal patterns of leaf death (Figure 6A) in this species also correlated (r = 0.82, p < 0.01) well with those of leaf litterfall (Figure 6B).
The timing of leaf emergence and litterfall is associated with translocation of resources from senescence to emerging leaves (Nitta and Ohsawa [1997]).
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).
These results are also supported by Kamruzzaman et al. ([2012a]), who reported that leaf and stipule litterfall from K. obovata are highly correlated with monthly hours of sunshine and mean air temperature.
Biomass can be reduced through management activities (resulting in removal from the system or transfer to the detrital pools), through mortality or through leaf senescence and litterfall.
NPPcanopy was calculated as leaf litter + reproductive litterfall + branch litterfall + other litter again assuming a C content of 50% to convert litterfall to C inputs.
