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Articles | Volume 20, issue 9
Articles | Volume 20, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1759-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1759-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 9
Research article
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15 May 2023
Research article |  | 15 May 2023

Information content in time series of litter decomposition studies and the transit time of litter in arid lands

Agustín Sarquis and Carlos A. Sierra

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Although plant litter is chemically and physically heterogenous and undergoes multiple transformations, models that represent litter dynamics often ignore this complexity. We used a multi-model inference framework to include information content in litter decomposition datasets and studied the time it takes for litter to decompose as measured by the transit time. In arid lands, the median transit time of litter is about 3 years and has a negative correlation with mean annual temperature.
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