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Leaf mechanical properties as potential predictors of leaf-litter decomposability [PDF]

Forestry Research, 2023
The mechanical resistance of plant leaves to herbivores and physical disturbances have a lasting legacy impact on leaf-litter decomposition rates and nutrient leaching.
Wenshan Li, Zhenya Liu, Jianfeng Zhao, Liangfan Ma, Jiahao Wu, Jinfeng Qi, Hang Wang   +6 more
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Stoichiometry of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus released from the leaf litter of various temperate tree species [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Dissolved organic matter and inorganic nutrients released from forest leaf litter through leaching are the important energy and nutrient sources that support the production of aquatic food webs.
Pei‐Chi Ho, Suzuna Nakajima, Jotaro Urabe   +2 more
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Potential Hypotheses Predicting Leaf Litter Nitrogen and Phosphorus Patterns at the Global Scale [PDF]

Plants
Climate has shaped green leaf nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) patterns through its direct physiological effects (Temperature–Plant Physiology hypothesis), indirect pathways involving soil nutrients (Soil Substrate Age hypothesis), or vegetation ...
Yajun Xie, Jiacheng Yan, Yonghong Xie
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Mechanical fragmentation of leaf litter by fine root growth contributes greatly to the early decomposition of leaf litter

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021
Understory plant root proliferation into the litter layer occurs in many forest ecosystems and dramatically accelerates litter decomposition and nutrient release in the early stages. Mechanical fragmentation of leaf litter by fine roots could be one main
Wei Wang, Kai Hu, Ke Huang, Jianping Tao
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Synergistic and Antagonistic Effects of Mixed-Leaf Litter Decomposition on Nutrient Cycling [PDF]

Plants
Understanding decomposition patterns of mixed-leaf litter from agroforestry species is crucial, as leaf litter in ecosystems naturally occurs as mixtures rather than as separate individual species.
Vestine Mukamparirwa, Salim M. S. Maliondo, Canisius Patrick Mugunga   +2 more
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Tree mycorrhizal type regulates leaf and needle microbial communities, affects microbial assembly and co-occurrence network patterns, and influences litter decomposition rates in temperate forest

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
BackgroundTree mycorrhizal types (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and ectomycorrhizal fungi) alter nutrient use traits and leaf physicochemical properties and, thus, affect leaf litter decomposition.
Benjawan Tanunchai, Benjawan Tanunchai, Benjawan Tanunchai, Li Ji, Li Ji, Simon Andreas Schroeter, Sara Fareed Mohamed Wahdan, Sara Fareed Mohamed Wahdan, Katikarn Thongsuk, Ines Hilke, Gerd Gleixner, François Buscot, François Buscot, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Matthias Noll, Matthias Noll, Witoon Purahong   +16 more
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Anaerobic capacities of leaf litter [PDF]

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1996
Leaf litter displayed a capacity to spontaneously form organic acids, alcohols, phenolic compounds, H(inf2), and CO(inf2) when incubated anaerobically at 20(deg)C either as buffered suspensions or in a moistened condition in microcosms. Acetate was the predominant organic product formed regardless of the degree of litter decomposition. Initial rates of
K, Kusel, H L, Drake
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Mixed-litter effects of fresh leaf semi-decomposed litter and fine root on soil enzyme activity and microbial community in an evergreen broadleaf karst forest in southwest China

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Litter decomposition is the main process that affects nutrient cycling and carbon budgets in mixed forests. However, knowledge of the response of the soil microbial processes to the mixed-litter decomposition of fresh leaf, semi-decomposed leaf and fine ...
Bing Mao, Bing Mao, Tingting Cui, Tongqing Su, Qiangsheng Xu, Feng Lu, Hongxin Su, Hongxin Su, Jianbing Zhang, Shuangshuang Xiao   +9 more
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Leaf litter chemistry and its effects on soil microorganisms in different ages of Zanthoxylum planispinum var. Dintanensis

BMC Plant Biology, 2023
Background Leaf litter is the products of metabolism during the growth and development of plantation, and it is also an important component of nutrient cycling in plantation ecosystems.
Yanping Song, Yanghua Yu, Yitong Li, Mingfeng Du   +3 more
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Role of Leaf Litter in Above-Ground Wood Decay

Microorganisms, 2020
The effects of leaf litter on moisture content and fungal decay development in above-ground wood specimens were assessed. Untreated southern pine specimens were exposed with or without leaf litter contact.
Grant T. Kirker, Amy Bishell, Jed Cappellazzi, Jonathan Palmer, Nathan Bechle, Patricia Lebow, Stan Lebow   +6 more
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