Title | Chemical changes in tree leaves during decomposition in a tallgrass prairie stream |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1982 |
Authors | Killingbeck, KT, Smith, DL, Marzolf, GR |
Journal | Ecology |
Volume | 63 |
Pagination | 585 -589 |
Accession Number | KNZ0033 |
Keywords | decomposition, leaf, prairie, stream, tallgrass |
Abstract | As part of an investigation into the movement patterns of elements in a prairie watershed, we performed preliminary leaf pack experiments in which the concentrations of 10 elements were measured in undecomposed gallery forest litterfall, and in the same litterfall as it decomposed in the adjacent tallgrass prairie stream. What we report here are the patterns of concentration change in these 10 elements for three dominant gallery forest tree species during 16 weeks of in-stream decomposition |
DOI | 10.2307/1938976 |