Total and epiphytic litter under the canopy of Acer macrophyllum in an old-growth temperate rainforest, Washington State, USA

The amounts and ecological importance of epiphytic litterfall has often been overlooked in forest ecosystem studies. However, epiphytes participate in whole-ecosystem dynamics by capturing and retaining nutrients from atmospheric sources, and transferring these nutrients to other ecosystem components. We quantified epiphytic litterfall under the canopy of mature bigleaf maples (The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author