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Plant litter

Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall, or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that has fallen on the top layer of soil, commonly known as the litter layer or O-horizon ("O" for "organic"). Plant litter typically becomes detritus and releases nutrients into the soil when…

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Characteristics and variability

Net primary productivity

Habitat and food

Nutrient cycle

Non-terrestrial litterfall

Collection and analysis

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Plant litter

Nodes134
Edges133
Triples16
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014925
Components1

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Plant litter

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related to Net primary productivity · 5
Plant litter → Due, Fungus, In, Net, Plant
related to Collection and analysis · 2
Plant litter → Ecologists, The

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litter litterfall soil also nutrient decomposition leaf plant layer organic nutrients forest species primary plants leaves decomposers accumulation matter rate

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
salamandersinstance ofAmphibians0.80text
caecilians inhabit the damp microclimate underneath fallen leaves for part or all of their life cycleinstance ofAmphibians0.80text
Bryoriainstance oflichens0.80text
Alectoria plays a similar role for deep-snow mountain caribouinstance oflichens0.80text
ironinstance ofDecomposition rate is tied to the type of litterfall present.Leaching is the process by which cations0.80text
salamanders.Forest litter rakingLeaf litter accumulation depends on factors like windinstance ofbut may have negative impacts on some inhabitants0.80text
decomposition rateinstance ofbut may have negative impacts on some inhabitants0.80text
species composition of the forestinstance ofbut may have negative impacts on some inhabitants0.80text
salamandersinstance ofbut may have negative impacts on some inhabitants0.80text
Plant litterrelated to Collection and analysisThe0.60section
Plant litterrelated to Collection and analysisEcologists0.60section
Plant litterrelated to Net primary productivityNet0.60section

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