Nutrient dynamics associated with leaf litter decomposition of three agroforestry tree species (Azadirachta indica, Dalbergia sissoo, and Melia azedarach) of Bangladesh

Journal of Forestry Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 577-582

  Hossain, Mahmood ^a   Siddique, Mohammad Raqibul Hasan ^a   Rahman, Md Saidur ^a   Hossain, Md Zaber ^a   Hasan, Md Mahedi ^a  

^a KHULNA UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

agroforestry; decay constant; decomposition; leaf litter and nutrient dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECIDUOUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; LEAF LITTER; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; RAINFALL; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BANGLADESH;

AZADIRACHTA INDICA; DALBERGIA; DALBERGIA SISSOO; MELIA AZEDARACH;

EID: 80255123468     PISSN: 1007662X     EISSN: 19930607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11676-011-0175-7     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Ajayi OC. 2007. User acceptability of sustainable soil fertility technologies lessons from farmers knowledge, attitude, and practice in Southern Africa. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 30: 21-40.
2. Allen SE. 1974. Chemical Analysis of Ecological Materials. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific publication, pp. 1-165.
3. Alvarez E, Marcos MLF, Torrado V, Sanjurjo MJF. 2008. Dynamics of macronutrients during the first stages of litter decomposition from forest species in a temperate area (Galicia, NW Spain). Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystem, 80: 243-256.
4. Anderson JM, Swift MJ. 1983. Decomposition in tropical forest. In: S. L. Sutton, T. C., Whitmore and A. C. Chadwick (eds), Tropical Rain forest: Ecology and Management. Blackwell, Oxford: Special Publication Series of the British Ecological Society, pp 287-309, 498p.
5. Attiwill PM, Leeper GW. 1987. Forest Soils and Nutrient Cycles. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp. 202.
6. Baksha MW, Basak AC. 2000. Mortality of sissoo (Dalbergia sissoo Roxb.) in Bangladesh. In: S., Appanah, G., Allard and S. M. Amatya (eds), Die-Back of Sissoo (Dalbergia sissoo) Proceedings of International Seminar, Katmandu, Nepal, 25-28 April 2000, FORSPA/FAO, Bankok, pp. 1-4.
7. Berg B, Laskowski R. 2006. Litter decomposition: a guide to carbon and nutrient turnover. Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing, pp. 1-421.
8. Berg B, Staaf H. 1987. Release of nutrients from decomposing white birch leaves and Scots pine needle litter. Pedobiologia, 30: 55-63.
9. Berg B. 1986. Nutrient release from litter and humus in coniferous forest soils-a mini review. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 1: 359-369.
10. Bloomfield J, Vogt KA, Vogt DJ. 1993. Decay rate and substrate quality of fine roots and foliage of two tropical tree species in the Luquillo experimental forest, Puerto Rico. Plant Soil, 150: 233-245.
11. Bossa JR, Adams JF, Shannon DA, Mullins GL. 2005. Phosphorus and Potassium release from Leucaena leaves in three environment of Haiti. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystem, 73: 25-35.
12. Brinson M. 1990. Riverine forests. In: A. E., Lugo, M., Brinson and S. Brown (eds), Forested wetlands. Ecosystems of the world 15. The Netherlands, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing, pp 87-134.
13. Budelman A. 1988. The decomposition of the leaf mulches of Leucaena leucocephala, Glyricidia sepium and Flemingia macrophylla under humid tropical conditions. Agroforestry System, 7: 47-62.
14. Cameron GN, Spencer SR. 1989. Rapid leaf decay and nutrient release in a Chinese tallow forest. Oecologia, 80: 222-228.
15. Chundawat BS, Gautam SK. 1993. A Textbook of Agroforestry. New Delhi: Oxford and IBH Publisher, pp. 64-69.
16. Cole DW. 1986. Nutrient cycling in world forest. In: S. P. Gessel (ed), Forest site and productivity. The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp. 104-115.
17. Eaton JS, Likens GS, Bormann F. 1973. Throughfall and stemflow chemistry in a northern hardwood forest. Journal of Ecology, 61: 495-508.
18. Guo LB, Sims REH. 1999. Litter decomposition and nutrient release via litter decomposition in New Zealand eucalypt short rotation forests. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, 75: 133-140.
19. Guo LB, Sims REH. 2002. Eucalypt litter decomposition and nutrient release under a short rotation forest regime and effluent irrigation treatments in New Zealand. II. Internal effects. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 34: 913-922.
20. Hagen-Thorn A, Varnagiryte I, Nihlgard B, Armolaitis K. 2006. Autumn nutrient resorption and losses in four deciduous forest tree species. Forest Ecology and Management, 228: 33-39.
21. Heal OW, Anderson JM, Swift MJ. 1997. Plant litter quality and decomposition: an historical overview. In: G. Cadisch and K. E. Giller (eds), Driven by nature: plant litter quality and decomposition. Willingford: CAB International, pp 3-30.
22. Herra'ez Ortega L, Ferna'ndez Marcos ML. 2000. Materialization of eucalyptus debris in two sites in NW Spain. In: M. Madeira and P. Khanna (eds), International symposium managing forest soils for sustainable productivity. UTAD: Vila Real, Portugal, pp. 87-88.
23. Hough Z, Cole CA. 2009. Aboveground decomposition dynamics in riparian depression and slope wetlands of central Pennsylvania. Aquatic Ecology, 43: 335-349.
24. Ibrahima A, Biyanzi P, Halima M. 2008. Changes in organic compounds during leaf litter leaching: laboratory experiment on eight plant species of the Sudano-guinea of Ngaoundere, Cameroon. Forest, 1: 27-33.
25. Ibrahima A, Joffre R, Gillon D. 1995. Changes in litter during the initial leaching phase -an experiment on the leaf-litter of Mediterranean species. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 27: 931-939.
26. Khietwtam RS, Ramakrishnan PS. 1993. Litter and fine roots dynamics of a relict sacred grove forest at Cherrapunji in north-eastern India. Forest Ecology and Management, 60: 327-344.
27. Lal R. 2004. Soil carbon sequestration impacts on global climate change and food security. Science, 304: 1623-1629.
28. Liu WY, Fox JED, Xu ZF. 2000. Leaf litter decomposition of canopy trees, bamboo and moss in a montane moist evergreen broad-leaved forest on Ailao mountain, Yunnan, Southwest China. Ecological Research, 15: 435-447.
29. Lockaby BG, Walbridge MR. 1998. Biogeochemistry. In: M. G., Messina and W. H. Conner (eds), Southern Forested Wetlands: Ecology and Management. Boca Raton, fl: Lewis publishers, pp 149-172.
30. Lodhiyal N, Lodhiyal LS. 2003. Biomass and net primary productivity of Bhabar Shisham Forests in Central Himalaya, India. Forest Ecology and Management, 176: 217-235.
31. Mahmood H, Saberi O, Misri K, Japar Sidik B. 2007. Nutrients dynamics associated with leaf litter degradation of Bruguieria parviflora (Whight and Arnold) at Kuala Selangor Mangrove forest, Malaysia. Indian Journal of Forestry, 30: 325-330.
32. Mason FC. 1977. Decomposition. London: The institute of biology's studies no. 74. Edward Arnold Limited, p. 58.
33. Meentemeyer V, Box EO, Thompson R. 1982. World pattern and amounts of terrestrial plant litter production. Bioscience, 32: 125-128.
34. Moore TR, Trofymow JA, Prescott CE, Fyles J, Titus BD. 2006. Patterns of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in decomposing foliar litter in Canadian forests. Ecosystems, 9: 46-62.
35. Nair PKR. 1984. The role of trees in soil productivity and protection. In: P. K. R. Nair (ed), Agroforestry Systems in the Tropics. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 567-589.
36. Ngoran A, Zakra N, Ballo K, Kouame C, Zapta F, Hofman G, Cleemant OV. 2006. Litter decomposition of Acacia auriculiformis and Acacia mangium under coconut trees on quaternary sandy soils in Ivory Coast. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 43: 102-106.
37. Olson JS. 1963. Energy storage and the balance of producers and decomposers in ecological systems. Ecology, 44: 322-331.
38. Palm CA, Sanchez PA. 1990. Decomposition and nutrient release patterns of leaves of three tropical legumes. Biotropica, 22: 330-338.
39. Parsons TR, Yoshiki M, Carol ML. 1984. A manual of Chemical and Bological Methods for Seawater Analysis. New York: Pergamon Press, p. 173.
40. Parsons WFJ, Taylor BR, Parkinson D. 1990. Decomposition of aspen (Populus tremuloides) leaf litter modified by leaching. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 20: 943-951.
41. Prescott CE. 2005. Do rates of litter decomposition tell us anything we really need to know? Forest Ecology and Management, 220: 66-74.
42. Schlesinger WH. 1985. Decomposition of chaparral shrub foliage. Ecology, 66: 1353-1359.
43. Semwal RL, Maikhuri RK, Rao KS, Sen KK, Saxena KG. 2003. Leaf litter decomposition and nutrient release patterns of six multipurpose tree species of central Himalaya, India. Biomass and Bioenergy, 24: 3-11.
44. Smiley GL, Kroschel J. 2010. Yield development and nutrient dynamics in cocoa-gliricidiaagroforests of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Agroforestry Systems, 78: 97-114.
45. Sundarapandian SM, Swamy PS. 1999. Litter production and leaf litter decomposition of selected tree species in tropical forests at Kodayar in the Western Ghats, India. Forest Ecology and Management, 123: 231-244.
46. Swift MJ, Heal OW, Anderson JM. 1979. Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Studies in Ecology 5. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publications, p. 372.
47. Takeda H. 1995. A 5 year study of litter decomposition processes in a Chamaecyparis obtusa. Forest Ecological Research, 10: 95-104.
48. Takeda H. 1996. Templates for the organization of soil animals communities in tropical forests. In: I. M., Turner, C. H., Diong, S. S. L. Lim, P. K. L. Ng (eds), Biodiversity and the Dynamics of Ecosystems. DIWPA SERIES, Singapore, pp. 217-226.
49. Tisdale SL, Nelson WL, Beaton JD, Havlin JL. 1993. Soil Fertility and Fertilizers. 5th eds. New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, pp 634.
50. Toky OP, Ramakrishnan PS. 1983. Secondary succession following slash and burn agriculture in North-Eastern India. I. Biomass, litterfall and productivity. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 71: 747-757.
51. Torreta NK, Takeda H. 1999. Carbon and nitrogen dynamics of decomposing leaf litter in a tropical hill evergreen forest. European Journal of Soil Biology, 35: 57-63.
52. Verhoef HA, Gunadi B. 2001. Decomposition dynamics and nutrient flow in pine forest plantation in Central Java. In: M. V. Reddy (ed.), Management of Tropical Plantation-Forests and Their Soil Litter System. Science Publisher, Inc., Enfield, NH, USA, pp. 173-211.
53. Villela DM, Proctor J. 1999. Litterfall mass, chemistry, and nutrient retranslocation in a monodominant forest on Maraca Island, Roraima, Brazil. Biotropica, 31: 198-211.
54. Wardle DA. 2002. Communities and Ecosystems: Linking the Aboveground and Belowground Components. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp 138-140.
55. Waring RH, Schlesinger WH. 1985. Forest ecosystems concepts and management. In: Decomposition and Forest Soil Development. New York: Academic Press Inc, p. 338.
56. Weatherburm MW. 1967. Phenol-hypochlorite reaction for determination of ammonia. Analytical Chemistry, 39: 971-974.