Particulate matter (PM), including PM10 and PM2. 5, has a major impact on air quality and
public health. It has been shown that trees can capture PM and improve air quality. In this …

Factors that may accelerate decomposition are important for ecosystem functioning since
plant litter decomposition is essential for carbon and nutrient cycling, but it is a generally …

The replacement of native vegetation in riparian areas by invasive species may cause
homogenization, and change the quality of allochthonous material entering streams. It may …

Riparian forests play an important role in stream ecosystems, as they support biodiversity,
reduce water erosion, and provide litter that fuels aquatic biota. However, they are affected …

Ensuring the effectiveness of method in maintaining and recovering the productive capacity
of degraded soils, eg, no-till farming, is more important than opening new agricultural …

Leaf litter breakdown is an important process in riparian ecosystems, regulated by the
concomitant fluctuations of allochthonous organic matter input (quality and quantity), the …

Plant litter is not only the major source of carbon (C) and nutrients for heterotrophic
organisms in forest headwater streams, but also an important component of stream C …

Hyphomycetes are important aquatic organisms for organic matter decomposition, releasing
inorganic nutrients to the environment. Understanding distribution patterns of hyphomycetes …

Litter breakdown is an important ecological process at the bottom of food webs in streams.
Previous studies have been based only on a temporal interval of a single season, thus …

Background Cocoa is an important tropical tree crop that is mainly cultivated in agroforestry
systems (AFS). This system, known as cabruca in northeastern Brazil, holds promise to …