Sentence examples for litter composition from inspiring English sources

This fundamental difference in litter composition between the plants may remediate the wildfire affected SOC pools in the grassland.

The cultivation of exotic species often affects soil ecological processes, especially the litter composition process (Lindsay and French 2004; Standish et al. 2004; Rodgers et al. 2008).

Carbon sequestration in temperate grasslands may potentially be enhanced by understanding and altering root architecture and turn over and also litter composition.

Patterns of C and N accumulation varied with both treatment (litter composition) and environmental conditions (site), but the general response was similar in both plantations.

More survey research is needed on non-plastic litter composition for which amounts and geographic dispersal in the region vary greatly from place to place along Mediterranean shores.

Few studies have explored the successive impacts of plant litter composition on soil microbial structure and function, litter decomposition patterns and final soil carbon sequestration.

The relationships between Salmonella in the litter and properties of soil at the farm location observed here may not hold for other litter compositions.

Changes in soil acidity under different plants can be due to differences among species in nutrient accumulation (Alban 1982; Finzi et al. 1998), nitrogen fixation (van Miegroet and Cole 1984), litter chemical composition (Ovington 1953; Alban 1982; Finzi et al. 1998) and the stimulation of mineral weathering (Tice et al. 1996).

Our results document the temporal, fine-scale changes in litter accumulation and composition following fire in a mallee woodland, indicating that substantial shifts in composition occur, likely affecting the flammability of the litter bed.

The European Environment Agency published the Marine LitterWatch mobile phone-based app (http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/coast_sea/marine-litterwatch) in 2013 to involve citizens in the monitoring of marine litter distribution and composition.

If fire's effects are predominantly indirect, however, then differences in arthropod populations between burned and unburned areas would only be expected when there are also differences in litter quantity and/or composition.