Leaf litter decomposition of Piper aduncum, Gliricidia sepium and Imperata cylindrica in the humid lowlands of Papua New Guinea
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...As these two fractions made the most important contributions to plant available P (Table 4), it suggests that that there was very little occlusion of the sorbed P in the presence of the legume GMs[42]....
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...This may have been achieved in this case by the action of organic acids and possibly the conservation of soil moisture because of the low rate of decomposition of Imperata[42]....
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...Similarly, previous studies on the decomposition rates of invasive plant have observed faster turnover of organic matter and nutrients, in particular nitrogen [10,11,25,26,34,35]....
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...japonicus would exhibit higher denitrification rates because invasive plants have been reported to have a higher rate of nitrogen turnover [10,11,25,26]....
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...Lignin was determined by the procedure of Van Soest and Wine (1968), and polyphenol by that of Dalzell and Kerven (1998), using purifiedLeucaena pallidacondensed tannin as standard....
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...The rapid initial loss of K, particularly from the piper leaf litter, is commonly found in litter bag studies (Budelman, 1988; Palm and Sanchez, 1990; Tian et al., 1992a)....
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...…number of studies have been conducted under laboratory conditions (Handayanto et al., 1997; Lupwayi and Haque, 1998; Palm and Sanchez, 1991; Tian et al., 1992b) or under field conditions with no crop after the fallow (Budelman, 1988; Handayanto et al., 1994; Mwiinga et al., 1994; Oglesby…...
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