<p>TC: total carbon; TN: total nitrogen; TP: total phosphorus.</p><p>Different lowercase letters indicate significant differences among different litter types (p < 0.05).</p><p>Initial litter quality of the investigated litter types (mean ± SE, n = 3).</p
Means ± SEM of the initial chemical leaf litter composition (n = 5) and aquatic hyphomycetes richnes...
<p>Total mean (+SE) litter carbon (a), nitrogen (b), phosphorus (c), lignin (d), cellulose (e) or he...
<p>Abbreviations: percent dry mass (% DM), percent acetyl-bromide-soluble lignin (% ABSL), condition...
<p>Different capital letters indicate significant differences among different periods for a specific...
<p>C = total C; N = total N; P = total P. Values presented are the means±S.E. (n = 6). Statistically...
<p>Initial litter quality parameters measured for leaf litter from the six different tree species us...
<p>Different lower-case letters indicate significant differences according to one-way ANOVA incorpor...
<p>Different capital letters indicate significant differences (<i>P</i> < 0.05) among the different ...
<p>Note: different letters within a row indicate significant difference (<i>P</i><0.05) among the st...
<p>Average carbon to nitrogen and lignin to nitrogen ratios of the four plant species litter types u...
Stocks of C and N in soil and biomass (a-g); litter dry weight (h); soil pH (i); and soil bulk densi...
Note: Lowercase letters indicate within-group differences and uppercase letters indicate between-gro...
<p>Values are expressed as mean ± s.d. (<i>n</i> = 9).</p><p>Lv_BD, Lv_BL, Lv_EG, Lv_NA and Lv_PA in...
<p>Significant differences among N treatments are indicated by different letters.</p
‡<p>from Zhou et al. (2011); <sup>†</sup>leaf litter chemical characteristics were average values of...
Means ± SEM of the initial chemical leaf litter composition (n = 5) and aquatic hyphomycetes richnes...
<p>Total mean (+SE) litter carbon (a), nitrogen (b), phosphorus (c), lignin (d), cellulose (e) or he...
<p>Abbreviations: percent dry mass (% DM), percent acetyl-bromide-soluble lignin (% ABSL), condition...
<p>Different capital letters indicate significant differences among different periods for a specific...
<p>C = total C; N = total N; P = total P. Values presented are the means±S.E. (n = 6). Statistically...
<p>Initial litter quality parameters measured for leaf litter from the six different tree species us...
<p>Different lower-case letters indicate significant differences according to one-way ANOVA incorpor...
<p>Different capital letters indicate significant differences (<i>P</i> < 0.05) among the different ...
<p>Note: different letters within a row indicate significant difference (<i>P</i><0.05) among the st...
<p>Average carbon to nitrogen and lignin to nitrogen ratios of the four plant species litter types u...
Stocks of C and N in soil and biomass (a-g); litter dry weight (h); soil pH (i); and soil bulk densi...
Note: Lowercase letters indicate within-group differences and uppercase letters indicate between-gro...
<p>Values are expressed as mean ± s.d. (<i>n</i> = 9).</p><p>Lv_BD, Lv_BL, Lv_EG, Lv_NA and Lv_PA in...
<p>Significant differences among N treatments are indicated by different letters.</p
‡<p>from Zhou et al. (2011); <sup>†</sup>leaf litter chemical characteristics were average values of...
Means ± SEM of the initial chemical leaf litter composition (n = 5) and aquatic hyphomycetes richnes...
<p>Total mean (+SE) litter carbon (a), nitrogen (b), phosphorus (c), lignin (d), cellulose (e) or he...
<p>Abbreviations: percent dry mass (% DM), percent acetyl-bromide-soluble lignin (% ABSL), condition...