Sentence examples for litter component from inspiring English sources

C stock in litter component of reclaimed minesoil of Midwestern and Appalachian coalfields (USA) comprised of pine, hardwood and mixed stand was estimated 21.2, 14 and 6 Mg ha−1 respectively (Amichev et al. 2008).

Other studies by Shrestha and Lal (2010) also estimated higher C stock than the present study in litter component of reclaimed minesoil of Ohio (USA) in forest ecosystem (3.96 Mg Cha−1).

In Indian mining conditions (revegetated minespoils of 19 years age, Singrauli, India) C accumulation by litter component was estimated 2.80 Mg C ha−1 @ 0.15 Mg C ha−1 year−1 (Tripathi et al. 2014), which is higher than the present study.

To verify the difference in leaf litter components, litter was collected from two different habitat types.

Reproductive and litter components were dried in an oven at 70 °C until constant weight and weighted with at precision of ±0.0001 g to calculate biomass.

In the present study, carbon stored in the understorey vegetation and litter components was 0.98 Mg C ha−1, which is lower than other reported values.

Reproductive and litter components were expressed as number per hectare (N ha−1) per year and/or biomass, expressed in tonne per hectare (ton ha−1) per year.

Semi-quantitative data were also collected at each site regarding notable geomorphological and ecological conditions (e.g., incidence of fire or drought, predominant litter components, additional species found outside of the sampling periphery).

Half of the data from the litterbag studies were used for calibration of CAMFor, while GENDEC was calibrated using litterbag studies where the chemical properties of litter components had been measured.

There were no differences in seedling establishment among the four types of culture vessel, although the culture in Box 1 resulted in the large number of protocorms (> 50 individuals), while the largest tuber was observed in Bottle 3. The leaf litter components also did not affect seed germination.

These deviations showed a significant effect of the number of component litter species.