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- Title
GROWTH AND PLANT NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION IN HYLOCOMIUM PROLIFERUM (L) LINDB. IN RELATION TO TREE CANOPY.
- Authors
Tamm, Carl Olof
- Abstract
In a moss community composed mainly of Hylocomium proliferum the annual production of dry matter in the mosses and their concentrations of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus were studied in relation both to light intensity and to the distance of the mosses from the nearest tree crown. Light intensity appears to be a limiting factor for the growth of Hylocomium only when it occurs beneath the crowns of the spruce trees. When not growing under the tree canopy the amount of growth of the mosses was found to decrease as the distance from the nearest tree crown increased This may be due to decreasing amounts of plant nutrients reaching the ground in the form of litter and rain washings from the crowns of the trees.
- Subjects
PLANT nutrients; PLANT growing media; PLANT canopies; TREES; MOSSES; SPRUCE
- Publication
Oikos, 1950, Vol 2, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
0030-1299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3564662