Sentence examples for litter accumulation from inspiring English sources

Litter accumulation is also an important parameter for consideration in the C sequestration study.

Its role can be enhanced with better litter accumulation and managing undergrowth.

Conversely, herbaceous margins had the lowest litter accumulation and the most decomposable litter.

Competition from surrounding understory vegetation and litter accumulation were likely the major factors causing the declines.

Figure 2: Figure 2 An example of excessive litter accumulation degrading through oxidative rather than biological means.

More specifically, we have shed light on post-fire trends in litter accumulation, a fundamental component of patch development.

Data on coastal litter were obtained from citizen science campaigns and assessments of large litter accumulations on beaches and rocky shores.

This is because many arid and semiarid grass species have co-evolved with herbivores (Milchunas et al., 1988; Briske 1991; Hendrickson and Olson 2006) and the prolonged absence of herbivory can lead to excessive standing litter accumulations referred to as moribund grasses which are particularly detrimental to grazing-dependent bunchgrasses (Sheppard et al., 2009).

If the seeds are shed into habitats without significant litter accumulations (e.g. in washes or roadside habitats), seeds without dormancy germinate.

There was also greater shading of the soil surface; soil and litter deposition; water accumulation; microbial, fungal, and mesofaunal activities in the shrub patches.

According to the Ministry of Defence, around 20 million mines and more than 50 million cluster bomblets litter the country, accumulations from the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s and the Persian Gulf wars in 1991 and 2003.