Dynamics of rare earth elements and associated major and trace elements during Douglas-fir (<i>Pseudotsuga menziesii</i>) and European beech (<i>Fagus sylvatica</i> L.) litter degradation

Montemagno, Alessandro; Hissler, Christophe; Bense, Victor; Teuling, Adriaan J.; Ziebel, Johanna; Pfister, Laurent

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3111-2022

Articles | Volume 19, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3111-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3111-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 13

Research article

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04 Jul 2022

Research article |

| 04 Jul 2022

Dynamics of rare earth elements and associated major and trace elements during Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) litter degradation

Alessandro Montemagno, Christophe Hissler, Victor Bense, Adriaan J. Teuling, Johanna Ziebel, and Laurent Pfister

Data sets

Supplementary material for Dynamics of rare earth elements and associated major and trace elements during Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) litter degradation (Version v2) C. Hissler and A. Montemagno https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6539436

Short summary

We investigated the biogeochemical processes that dominate the release and retention of elements (nutrients and potentially toxic elements) during litter degradation. Our results show that toxic elements are retained in the litter, while nutrients are released in solution during the first stages of degradation. This seems linked to the capability of trees to distribute the elements between degradation-resistant and non-degradation-resistant compounds of leaves according to their chemical nature.