Root biomass and surface area in three successional tropical forests
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Forest Research
- Vol. 12 (3), 699-704
- https://doi.org/10.1139/x82-104
Abstract
Total root biomass and surface area of fine roots (2, and RAI = 1.34, 4.66, and 5.28 in the 1-, 8-, and 70-year-old stands, respectively. Fine roots were most concentrated in the surface 5 cm of soil at all three sites, but especially so in the 70-year-old stand. The 1- and 8-year-old vegetations had proportionally more fine roots below 25 cm than the 70-year-old vegetation, but lacked the large-diameter roots characteristic of the 70-year-old stand.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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