NDLI: Spatiotemporal distribution of aboveground litter in a Cryptomeria japonica plantation

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Author	Yoshida, Tomohiro Hijii, Naoki
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	We assessed the vertical distribution of litter and its seasonal patterns in the canopy and on the forest floor (soil), as well as litterfall (the flux of litter from the canopy to the soil) in a 33-year-old plantation of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica D. Don). The masses of total litter, dead leaves, and dead branches in the canopy of C. japonica trees averaged 34.09, 19.53, and 14.56 t dry wt ha−1, respectively, and were almost constant during the study period. The total masses of the annual litterfall were 4.17 and 5.88 t dry wt ha−1 year−1 in the two consecutive years of the study. The mass of the soil litter averaged 7.95 t dry wt ha−1 during the same period. All relationships between the mass of canopy litter and tree-size parameters (diameters at breast height and at the lowest living branch) were linear in a log-linear regression. Compared with the results for this plantation at a younger stage (16 years old), our results suggest that the total mass of dead leaves attached to each tree increases markedly with increasing age, but that the trajectory of this increase as a function of tree size may change from an exponential to a saturation curve with increasing stand age.
Starting Page	419
Ending Page	426
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13416979
Journal	Journal of Forest Research
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	16107403
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2006-12-11
Publisher Place	Tokyo
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Arboreal litter Canopy Cryptomeria japonica plantation Decomposition Litterfall Plant Ecology Forestry Forestry Management Tree Biology Plant Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Forestry

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