Claim · model-written summary
Litter dry mass rose for fifty years then declined.
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Verbatim
e0“Litter dry weight was depicted as a parabola form showing the gradual increment during the first 50 years and slight decrease thereafter.”
Title
Lee, Kyu-Song Journal of Ecology and Field Biology 2006. doi:10.5141/jefb.2006.29.3.237
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Herb biomass peaked at five years.
- Observation Basal area rose logarithmically through succession.
- Observation Tree density rose for fifteen years then fell with self thinning.
- Observation At eighty years tree shoot density formed a reverse J curve and Quercus mongolica dominated.
- Observation Standing biomass rose fastest in mid succession.
- Observation Annual net productivity rose for thirty five years and then declined.
- Observation Early succession had faster productivity gains than middle succession.
- Observation The productivity to biomass ratio declined exponentially.