Leaf litter decomposition of Piper aduncum, Gliricidia sepium and Imperata cylindrica in the humid lowlands of Papua New Guinea
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...This is in agreement with the earlier finding that the polyphenol or lignin+polyphenol to N ratio were strongly correlated with N mineralization from legume and non-legume residues (Hartemink and O'Sullivan, 2001; Isaac, et al., 2000)....
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...Hartemink and O’Sullivan (2001) found that G. sepium contained about 25.2 g N kg-1 DM, 149.8 g lignin kg-1 DM, and 26.2 g polyphenol kg-1 DM. Pandey and Rai (2007), on the other hand, reported that Gliricidia leaves, under humid climate of South Andaman, India, could release N maximum at 15 days…...
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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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