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Scientific Staff - Bonnie Ball Coelho
... cereale L.), a common rotation crop, over time in litter bags subjected to different renditions, Marigold decomposition proceeded ... layer of soil did not change after the postharvest burn, but increased 1.1 units in the top 1-cm layer. In the unburned mulch treatment, the litter layer ... higher under the accumulated litter. A small amount of fine roots proliferated in the litter layer, amounting to 1% ...
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WVU - Plant & Soil Science
... arthropods that occupy various feeding guilds including the herbivores, predators, parasitoids, and scavengers in the litter layer. We also investigate indirect effects up the food chain to predatory vertebrates. In addition, I ...
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CPN Samples
... this sense, it reminded me of N. hirsuta of Borneo, which also grows in the litter layer of montane forests. Hopkins et al. (1990) were not entirely sure about the identity of ...
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Pine Diseases
... down while still alive; fungus fruiting bodies on tree near soil line, often concealed by litter layer. Throughout the state, but more damaging on light sandy soils in the coastal plain Gradually ...
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Pinus strobus invasion in the Elbe River Sandstone Mountains, Czech Republic
... into P. sylvestris forests because of the dense canopy and great needle litter production causing the thick detritus layer on the soil surface. Pinus sylvestris stand of all. Dicrano-Pinion ... regeneration proceeds in different forests. We observe the seed production, seed persistence in the litter layer, seed germination and seedling and sapling growth. The better P. strobus regeneration strategy, in ...
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Forestry Glossary: B is for ... bark, biomass, and boreal
... or covering of branches and roots of a tree. A relatively waterproof layer that protects the tree from insects, fungus, etc., and stops it ... horizon below the A horizon and above the C horizon. In this layer, clay is enriched because of being washed down from the A ... earth (also, brown forest earth) (n.) Below a litter layer and a humus layer, this first layer of true soil is dark and humus-rich. Such ...
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Classes on California native plants, mycorrhiza and the native plant community.
... yard there may only be 20 or so. Ectomycorrhizae live above VAM, just below the litter layer. Ericoid overlap greatly with the Ectomycorrhizae. Sometimes one fungus can be one type on one ... kill stress tolerants by exclusion of the fungal partners. Ruderals need bare ground (no mulch layer)and favor bare ground.(They create bare ground by favoring frequent flashy fires, soil slippage ...
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California Plant Ecology
... plant species need a mulch or litter layer (except for the grasslands and desert) that will gradually form as the plants reach their maturity. This mulch and litter layer needs to make soil contact; standing annual, introduced grasses or other weeds will block the formation of the litter layer. These weeds need to be removed ...
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Pinus serotina Michx
... the heavy fuel accumulation in the dense understory. Dry fuel weights of the understory and litter layer are frequently more than 22.4 t/ha (10 tons/acre). When fires occur in ... make fire control extremely difficult. Very intense fires consume not only the trees, shrubs, and litter, but the peat soils as well. Special Uses Although pond pine has poor form and ...
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Forestry Glossary: L is for ... layering leaf litter
... Glossary: L is for ... layering leaf litter Welcome to Ariadne's Forest Glossary Glossary: L is for ... layering leaf litter. by Ariadne Unst Glossary of L... Forest and Tree Home, Glossary ... . lichen Organism comprising a species of fungus symbiotically joining with a species of algae. litter The uppermost layer of organic debris on a forest floor. It contains freshly fallen or only slightly ...
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