Aboveground litter inputs have been greatly altered by human disturbances and climate change, which have important effects on soil respiration. However, the knowledge of how soil respiration responds to altered litter inputs is limited in tropical and subtropical forests. We conducted an aboveground litterfall manipulation experiment in three successional forests in the subtropics to examine th...

The Amazon Basin experiences severe droughts that may become more common in the future. Little is known of the effects of such droughts on Amazon forest productivity and carbon allocation. We tested the prediction that severe drought decreases litterfall and wood production but potentially has multiple cancelling effects on belowground production within a 7-year partial throughfall exclusion ex...

Abstract The little layer of tree plantations provides primary nutrients for uptake, buffers changes in soil moisture, and habitat substrate to epigeic fauna. However, this eucalypt is often removed reduce fuel load during the fire season Brazilian savanna (Cerrado). Therefore, it necessary quantify effects litter dynamics on function these plantations, key nutrient cycling processes fauna dive...

Litter dynamics is one of the fundamental processes for growth and maintenance native forest fragments, being considered main pathway nutrient cycling in forests. Studies on litter production content therefore provide insights that a better understanding dynamics. This study identifies seasonality meteorological conditions influence quantity return nutrients through an Atlantic Forest fragment....

To explore the importance of 12 elements in litter production and decomposition, we fertilized 36 1600 m(2)-plots with combinations of N, P, K, or micronutrients (i.e. B, Ca, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Mo, S, Zn) for 6 years in a lowland Panamanian forest. The 90% of litter falling as leaves and twigs failed to increase with fertilization, but reproductive litter (fruits and flowers) increased by 43% with...

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TRIPATHI ABHISHEK M., FISCHER MILAN, ORSÁG MATĚJ, MAREK MICHAL V., ŽALUD ZDENĚK, TRNKA MIREK. 2016. Evaluation of Indirect Measurement Method of Seasonal Patterns of Leaf Area Index in a High-Density Short Rotation Coppice Culture of Poplar. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(2): 549–556. Leaf area index (LAI) is an important determinant of biomass produc...

Two sets of paired watersheds on north and South facing slopes were utilized to simulate the effects of temperature differences that are on the scale of those expected with near-term climatic warming on decomposition. Two watersheds were pine plantations (Pinus strobus L.) and two were mature deciduous forests established at similar elevation ranges and precipitation at the Coweeta Hydrologic L...