Quantifying carbon and nutrient input from litterfall in European forests using field observations and modeling
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020702%3A_____%2F18%3AN0000078" target="_blank" >RIV/00020702:_____/18:N0000078 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2017GB005825" target="_blank" >https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2017GB005825</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2017GB005825" target="_blank" >10.1029/2017GB005825</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Quantifying carbon and nutrient input from litterfall in European forests using field observations and modeling
Original language description
Litterfall is a major, yet poorly studied, process within forest ecosystems globally. It is important for carbon dynamics, edaphic communities, and maintaining site fertility. Reliable information on the carbon and nutrient input from litterfall, provided by litter traps, is relevant to a wide audience including policy makers and soil scientists. We used litterfall observations of 320 plots from the pan-European forest monitoring network of the International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests to quantify litterfall fluxes. Eight litterfall models were evaluated (four using climate information and four using biomass abundance). We scaled up our results to the total European forest area and quantified the contribution of litterfall to the forest carbon cycle using net primary production aggregated by bioregions (north, central, and south) and by forest types (conifers and broadleaves). The 1,604 analyzed annual litterfall observations indicated an average carbon input of 224gCm(-2)year(-1) (annual nutrient inputs 4.49gN, 0.32gP, and 1.05gKm(-2)), representing a substantial percentage of net primary production from 36% in north Europe to 32% in central Europe. The annual turnover of carbon and nutrient in broadleaf canopies was larger than for conifers. The evaluated models provide large-scale litterfall predictions with a bias less than 10%. Each year litterfall in European forests transfers 351TgC, 8.2TgN, 0.6TgP, and 1.9TgK to the forest floor. The performance of litterfall models may be improved by including foliage biomass and proxies for forest management.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
ISSN
0886-6236
e-ISSN
1944-9224
Volume of the periodical
32
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
784-798
UT code for WoS article
000434413500004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85046681835