Seasonal nutrient dynamics of foliage and litterfall on Walker Branch Watershed, a deciduous forest ecosystem [electronic resource].
- Published
- Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1976.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description
- Pages: 140 : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- A detailed twelve-month study of litterfall, live foliage biomass, and seasonal nutrient (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, sodium, and magnesium) dynamics in tree components was performed for forest types on Walker Branch Watershed, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Biomass and nutrient content of foliage, reproductive parts and branches were examined for ten dominant trees in order to assess the relative importance of litterfall in returning nutrients to the forest floor in four different forest types. Litterfall, measured in pine, pine-oak-hickory, oak-hickory, and mesophytic hardwood forests, was separated into three components (leaves, reproductive parts, and branches). Seasonal comparisons of those forest types were made for biomass and nutrient inputs for each component and for total litterfall.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:ornl/tm-5254
ornl/tm-5254 - Subject(s)
- Other Subject(s)
- Forests
- Nutrients
- Leaves
- Biomass
- Terrestrial Ecosystems
- Trees
- Calcium
- Data Analysis
- Forest Litter
- Leaching
- Magnesium
- Nitrogen
- Phosphorus
- Plant Stems
- Potassium
- Seasonal Variations
- Sodium
- Translocation
- Alkali Metals
- Alkaline Earth Metals
- Biological Materials
- Cryogenic Fluids
- Dissolution
- Ecosystems
- Elements
- Energy Sources
- Fluids
- Metals
- Nonmetals
- Plants
- Renewable Energy Sources
- Separation Processes
- Variations
- Note
- Published through SciTech Connect.
03/01/1976.
"ornl/tm-5254"
Reichle, D.E.; Henderson, G.S.; Clebsch, E.E.C.; Grizzard, T. - Funding Information
- W-7405-ENG-26
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