Sentence examples for the litterfall from inspiring English sources

Small branches and leaves mainly contributed in the litterfall production.

We also quantified the litterfall for each tree species.

The litterfall traps were emptied monthly from April 2008 to March 2009, when we sorted the litterfall into leaves, stipules, flowers, propagules and branches.

Figure 5 showed the seasonality of the litterfall of all the mangrove species.

Grazing and harvesting are likely the major factors affecting soil phytolith and PhytOC storages through reducing the litterfall returning fluxes.

The latter resorption process is a key mechanism for deciduous plants to avoid essential nutrient losses due to the litterfall.

In addition to the lower litterfall, the mean leaf litter N concentration, an important index of litter quality, was 14% lower in plantations than in natural forests, based upon 18 study cases from our literature.

Based on our previous analysis of Zn and other metals in larch (Viers et al., [42]), these samplings correspond to 3 main periods of larch leaf formation and evolution allowing to assess the beginning of the nutrient mobilization, the maximal activity before the resorption, and the average isotopic composition of the larch litterfall.

The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (13C-NMR) spectra revealed a higher O-alkyl:aromatic C ratio and more decomposable lignin structure (based on lignin subunit ratios) in the Qd litterfall than in the Qc litterfall (3.7 and 3.6, respectively), in concordance with results obtained by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC).

The model describes the main nutrient fluxes in the stand: litterfall, decomposition, retranslocation, root uptake and management type, and it was parameterized and verified with 3 years of field data.

The importance of the processes for removal of radiocesium from the tree canopies decreased in the order litterfall > throughfall >> stemflow.