The aim of this thesis was to investigate the role of resources in driving ecosystem processes and in influencing soil-and plant communities in boreal and temperate forests, through four complementary experimental studies. In the first study, plant and soil microbial responses to the quality and diversity of added organic substrates from boreal forests were investigated. The substrate-diversity...

the effect of european black alder (alnus glutinosa l.) on the contents of carbon and nitrogen,exchangeable base cations, and plant available forms of phosphorus in the reclaimed mine soils formed bywaste deposition from opencast lignite mines was researched in central serbia. it was concluded that thegreatest part of dead organic residues reaching the soil under european black alder monocultur...

Forest ecosystems are critical for their carbon sequestration potential. Increasing tree diversity has been shown to enhance both forest productivity and litter decomposition. Litter increases decomposability by increasing the of substrates offered decomposers. However, relative importance decomposer community in mediating effects on decomposition remains unknown. Moreover, modulation litterfal...

Climate change is predicted to increase the aridity in the Mediterranean Basin and severely affect forest productivity and composition. The responses of forests to different timescales of drought, however, are still poorly understood because extreme and persistent moderate droughts can produce nonlinear responses in plants. We conducted a rainfall-manipulation experiment in a Mediterranean fore...

Litterfall is the primary source of carbon and nutrients that determine soil fertility in forest ecosystems. Most current studies have focused on foliar litter, but the seasonal dynamics and allometric scaling relationships among different litter components (e.g., foliar litter, woody litter, reproductive litter, and epiphytic litter) are poorly understood. Here, we investigated the litter prod...

Litterfall, directly and indirectly, affects the soil physicochemical properties, microbial activity, diversity of fauna flora by adding organic matter nutrients to soil. This study explores litterfall dynamics such as production, litter decomposition rate, associated nutrient return in three forest types, that is, camphor tree (CTF), Masson pine (MPF), mixed (CMF), subtropical China. Results s...

Abstract Peat swamp forest is an important ecosystem in global climate change through its high carbon content and role as a sink. In peat forest, there near-closed cycle of nutrients including carbon. order to better understand the rate plant litter production decomposition, study was carried out three secondary forests Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Litterfall collection undertaken using trap ...

The article presents the methodology of collection and desk study forest litterfall samples. fractional composition woody debris has been studied. Biomass carbon stocks in pine stands litter have estimated.

Forested wetlands may represent important ecosystems for mitigating climate change effects through carbon (C) sequestration because of their slow decomposition and C storage by trees. Despite this potential importance, few studies have acknowledged the role temperate treed swamps in cycle. In southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, we examined soil cycle determining inputs litterfall, assessing rates...