Sentence examples similar to quantity of litterfall from inspiring English sources

The results suggest that the chemical composition and chemical quality of litterfall, resulting from foliar resorption, strongly affect forest floor microbial activity.

The OC increased with increasing altitude, probably due to the quality of litterfall and lower rate of decomposition in the summit forest.

We found that pine litter was a significant and even dominant component of litterfall at certain times of the year, typically autumn and winter, when quantities of pine needles falling were up to three times the fall of native leaves.

Chave, J. et al. Regional and seasonal patterns of litterfall in tropical South America.

Deposition patterns of litterfall components in relation to edges of openings indicated a heightened level of Alectoria litterfall along edges.

Field methods to obtain accurate measurement of litterfall and its component parts are described.

The role of litterfall in biogeochemical cycling and tree growth is outlined, and the potential to increase this knowledge from analyses of litterfall monitored in the ICP Forests intensive Programme across Europe is highlighted.

This is the first report of litterfall production of the Sundarbans mangrove forest, Bangladesh.

Leaf-fall was the dominant component of litterfall throughout the year.

There are very few reports that describe the contribution of litterfall to total NPP, and reported that litterfall represents up to 30% of the overall NPP (Alongi et al. 2005).

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).