Sentence examples for mass of litter from inspiring English sources

This undoubtedly reflects the great mass of litter fall in cocoa ecosystems.

Litter mass as well as mass of litter residues was determined with a two-decimal accuracy to calculate relative percent mass loss (see below).

Foraging pits trapped twice the mass of litter compared with adjacent non-pit surfaces, and there was more litter under the tree canopies than in the open.

Atmospheric nitrogen is input to the soil via the stomatal uptake and detrital processes, and the model limits the amount of nitrogen available for plant growth depending on microbial demands in the soil, which in turn depend on the mass of litter, the temperature and the soil moisture sensitive decomposition rates.

Linear regression found no significant relation (p ≥ 0.1) between analyzed soil parameters and mass loss of litterbags at the respective sites, but mass loss of litter at urban and periurban sites correlated significantly with leaf litter quality parameters (Table 3).

Environmental and soil alterations at urban sites led to an accelerated mass loss of litter in New York City and Helsinki (Pouyat et al. 1997; Pouyat and Carreiro 2003; Nikula et al. 2010), while a decelerated mass loss has been observed at urban sites in Naples as well as in Asheville, NC, USA (Cotrufo et al. 1995; Pavao-Zuckerman and Coleman 2005) compared to the respective rural sites.

Two correction factors were established for mass of initial litter.

One was a species-specific air-dried to oven-dried correction factor, obtained by dividing the mass of five litter subsamples dried at 105°C for 48 h per species by their initial air-dried weight.

The δN discrimination factor of gypsy ants was most parsimoniously explained by the mass of leaf litter on the forest floor.

Higher values indicate a greater mass of volatile litter and/or greater vapour pressure deficit, and thus higher fire ignition risk.

Total volume of individual treeholes was estimated to range from 200 to over 7,500 mL, with water volumes ranging from 0 to 7,000 mL, and wet mass of leaf litter ranged from 0 to 250 g.