Plant litter
Drying and rewetting conditions differentially affect the mineralization of fresh plant litter and extant soil organic matter
... fresh plant litter decomposition exhibits a lower sensitivity to temperature than SOM due to its lower recalcitrance (Bosatta and Agren, 1999), previous work shows that, contrastingly, it can be very ...
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Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude
... Plant litter represents a major basal resource in streams, where its decomposition is partly regulated by litter ...traits. Litter-trait variation may determine the latitudinal gradient in ...
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Distribution of carbon and nitrogen and ecological stoichiometry of the plant-litter-soil continuum in an evergreen broad-leaved forest
... of plant growth and development, and therefore of life history and survival strategies ...the plant-litter-soil continuum as one complex ...the plant-litter- soil continuum in ...
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A microbial biomass and respiration of soil, peat and decomposing plant litter in a raised mire
... the plant litter as a substrate for ...the litter is compared for the same litter in different burial environments), the biomass is greater for the lagg fen compared with the mire ...the ...
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Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude
... Plant litter represents a major basal resource in streams, where its decomposition is partly regulated by litter ...traits. Litter-trait variation may determine the latitudinal gradient in ...
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Effect of inhibitors on Zygophyllum dumosum plant litter decomposition
... Functional diversity (H’). Differences in H’ were noticeable only in the first sampling period; during this time the index was the highest one in the wa- ter-treated leaf litter (Figure 3). At the same time, the ...
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Pool of Biological Resources for Potential Applications in Solid State Fermentation Obtained from a Forest Plantation of Pinus pseudostrobus Lindl, Mexico
... for plant litter decomposition, were cultured at laboratory conditions and tested for their ability to grow on cellulose and hemicellulose as the sole carbon ...
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Are low producing plants sequestering carbon at a geater rate than high producing plants? : a test within the genus Chionochloa : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Ecology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... with plant growth rate have obvious implications for the chemistry of the plant material produced and corresponding plant ...growing plant, not just for herbivores, but also for ...
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Foraging Behaviors of Mice and Voles: Relations Between Cover and Food Type
... The experiment procedures were conducted in the Russell R. Kirt Prairie on the College of DuPage campus. The prairie was the product of a restoration effort in 1990. It was built upon a mixture of clay and rubble that ...
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Open Journal Systems
... covering plant litters. Thus CAI estimate the senescent plant covering of soils and do not assess directly the spectral features of cellulose content in plant ...and plant materials are ...
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Soft rot of Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) by Rhizopus artocarpi (Berk. & Broome) Boedijn, in Andhra Pradesh, India.
... Soft rot caused by R. artocarpi (Berk. & Broome) Boedijn, is observed in jackfruit flowers and fruit grown in Andhra Pradesh, India (Figure A). This soft rot disease is observed in high-rainfall areas and during or ...
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Grazing increases litter decomposition rate but decreases nitrogen release rate in an alpine meadow
... annual litter composition and determine whether plants could recover without grazing, three graz- ing (GP, 100 m × 200 m) and three grazing exclusion pad- docks (GEP, 30 m × 20 m) were established when all above- ...
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The biogeochemistry and pedogeochemistry of the West Hercules area, Rosebery, western Tasmania
... A litter survey down five cut grid lines showed that plant-litter has great potential for reflecting elemental concentrations in the soil.. Thirty soil pits were dug and sampled every te[r] ...
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Biotic vs. abiotic control of decomposition: a comparison of the effects of simulated extinctions and changes in temperature
... assemblage, plant litter assemblage and temperature) and their interactions, as well as a covariate to account for temporal variation in the experiment (trial, nested within ...and plant assemblages ...
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The Cost of Protection: Frost Avoidance and Competition in Herbaceous Plants
... under plant litter can reduce subsequent plant growth and reproduction, there can be indirect benefits of deep soil positioning or litter cover potentially enabled by frost ...or litter ...
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Gone or just out of sight? The apparent disappearance of aromatic litter components in soils
... Recent research challenges traditional theories presuming that stable SOM results from neoformation of complex hu- mic polymers in soil (“humification”; Lehmann and Kleber, 2015). Stable SOM rather seems to be composed ...
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Initial Soil Organic Matter Content Influences the Storage and Turnover of Litter, Root and Soil Carbon in Grasslands
... The Microbial Efficiency-Matrix Stabilization MEMS framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic[r] ...
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Decreasing sedimentation loss from surface irrigation into Riparian areas
... The effect results from a combination of factors including soil binding by roots in close proximity to the flow, introduction of plant litter into the furrow stream, and (with narrow row[r] ...
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Comparing litter dynamics of Phragmites australis and Spartina alterniflora in a sub-tropical Chinese estuary: Contrasts in early and late decomposition
... the litter collapsed to the sediment surface: (1) the early phase lasting less than a month when 5-40% of the litter was lost, (2) a slower phase lasting up to a year when an additional 40-70% may be ...
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Kinetics of pyrolysis of litter materials from pine and eucalyptus forests
... forest litter fuel materials for better prediction of fire propagation through the forest litter fuel bed in ...fuel litter materials (Pinus radiata (PR) and Eucalyptus obliqua ...forest ...
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