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Título
Nutrient release through litterfall in short rotation poplar crops in mediterranean marginal land
Autor
Año del Documento
2021
Editorial
MDPI
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Forests 2021, vol. 12, n. 9, 1185
Resumen
A detailed knowledge of how poplar leaf litter decomposes under Mediterranean marginal conditions can help to minimize fertilization inputs and determine the profitability and sustainability of energy crops established in these particularly sensitive areas for bioenergy. Leaf litter decomposition was monitored for 32 months using the litterbag technique in a poplar crop under short rotation conditions in a marginal Mediterranean area. In addition, nutrient dynamics, together with the production and composition of the woody and foliar biomass produced, were studied for a period of four years. Leaf litter decomposition was relatively slow, particularly during the winter months, and accelerated in early spring, coinciding with the rainy season. At the end of the decomposition study 50% of the initial litterfall was decomposed, releasing roughly 60% of the N, 40% of the K, and 70% of the P initially present in fresh leaves. Annual yields of 6.0 dry Mg ha−1 were obtained. The aerial biomass produced the first year of the second rotation cycle extracted 83, 8.7, and 29 kg ha−1 of N, P, and K, respectively, whereas the amount of nutrients that were estimated to be naturally supplied to the system through leaf litter decomposition were 180 kg ha−1 of N, 19 kg ha−1 of P, and 30 kg ha−1 of K. Therefore, four years after establishing the energy crop, leaf litter was able to release higher amounts of primary macronutrients into the environment than the nutrient uptake by the produced aboveground biomass (woody and foliar biomass).
Materias (normalizadas)
Bosques y silvicultura
Gestión forestal
Biomasa
Materias Unesco
2417.17 Nutrición Vegetal
Palabras Clave
Biomass
Nutrient cycling
Poplar
Leaf litte
Biomasa
Ciclo de nutrientes
Álamo
Hojarasca
Revisión por pares
SI
Patrocinador
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia de España - FEDER (PS-120000-2005-6)
Version del Editor
Propietario de los Derechos
© 2021 The Authors
Idioma
eng
Tipo de versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Derechos
openAccess
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