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- W3134690618 abstract "Litter decomposition plays a vital role in carbon and nutrient budget of forest ecosystems, but our understanding of this process for high altitude ecosystems, especially the timberline zone, is not very clear. We studied leaf litter decomposition of Betula utilis, which is the main timberline species of Western Himalaya. We placed 144 litterbags (each containing 10 g of oven dried litter) at three ‘spatially well separated sites’ in Oct 2014, to study the direction and magnitude of change in key variables associated with leaf litter decomposition and to test for generality of decomposition process across these spatially distant sites. The results revealed that initial nutrient concentration and lignin content of litter was significantly different for the sites. Further, magnitude of mass loss and decay rate was found to be greater for up to 34 weeks (19.03 ± 4.55% and 0.35 ± 0.06 yr−1 respectively), which reached 47.01 ± 1.98% and 0.17 ± 0.01 yr−1 respectively, after 4 years. N, P and K concentrations showed sharp decease for up to 34 weeks, after which N consistently increased with incubation time, whereas P and K concentrations were relatively stable. The lignin and cellulose contents decreased consistently with incubation time (from 12.29 ± 1.21% to 5.21 ± 0.50% and from 16.87 ± 1.01% to 8.25 ± 0.50% respectively). There were significant increases in C:N and lignin:N ratios for up to 34 weeks, followed by a continuous decrease thereafter. The change in various variables associated with litter decomposition was not consistent among the sites and the magnitude of change was greater during initial stages due to leaching of labile components. The increase in N and decreases in C:N and lignin:N ratios with incubation time might be due to microbial immobilization of N and are important for nutrient conservation in timberline ecosystems, as such changes are related to faster decomposition of recalcitrant fraction of litter, N mineralization and building of soil nutrient pool." @default.
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- W3134690618 title "Dynamics of leaf litter decomposition in the timberline zone of western Himalaya" @default.
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