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Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter,
litterfall or duff) is dead
plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes)...
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estimates rarely account for
below ground productivity, herbivory, turnover,
litterfall,
volatile organic compounds, root exudates, and
allocation to symbiotic...
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carbon fixed by
forests is
periodically added to the
forest floor through litterfall, and a
substantial portion of the
nutrient requirements of
forest ecosystems...
- and
running counter to the
ecological principles of soil
building with
litterfall. Hügelkultur is said to
replicate the
natural process of decomposition...
- as much as 80% of the
organic carbon in
forests and 60% in pastures.
Litterfall and root
organic carbon mix with
sedimentary material to form organic...
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which mineral elements such as
nitrogen and
phosphorus are
recycled by
litterfall and decomposition.
After logging, the loss of
nutrients may
convert forested...
- the
pelagic zone, dead fish and the
occasional allochthonous input of
litterfall are
examples of co****
particulate organic matter (CPOM>1 mm). Bacteria...
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Litterfall and
throughfall collectors at
beech stand in Thetford, East Anglia...
- more
often scattered or in
groups under hardwood trees, in
humus and
litterfall.
Typical habitats include bog edges,
swampy areas, and hummocks. Fruiting...
- sp****
canopy cover, and a damp,
dense and
cohesive topsoil with a
thick litterfall.
Thismia rodwayi's life
cycle is
still very
poorly understood. As it usually...
