Litter decomposition represents one of the largest annual fluxes of carbon (C) from terrestrial ecosystems, particularly for tropical forests, which are generally characterized by high net primary productivity and litter turnover. We used data from the Long-Term Intersite Decomposition Experiment (LIDET) to (1) determine the relative importance of climate and litter quality as predictors of dec...

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Reduced Differental Transform Method (RDTM), which is one of the useful and effective numerical method, is applied to solve nonlinear time-dependent Foam Drainage Equation (FDE) with different initial conditions. We compare our method with the famous Adomian Decomposition and Laplace Decomposition Methods. The obtained results demonstrated that RDTM is a powerful tool for solving nonlinear part...

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By m eans o f an electron m icroprobe the lith iu m -K and a lu m in iu m -K X -ray em ission lines o f A l-L i alloys were studied. The L i-line can be well described by the calculated emission line. The evaluation yields the transfer o f electrons from the Li-sto the A l-p-band during alloying. T he charge transfer is enhanced by heat treatm ent. The dependence o f the elastic m odulus on the...

Within-stand nutrient cycling is dependent on many factors, including primary productivity, nutrient-use efficiency, nutrient resorption, sclerophylly, decomposition, nutritional quality of plant tissue, and allocation to defense. The efficiency of these plantmediated processes depends on nutrient availability in the environment and inherent functional properties of plants. However, little is k...