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litterfall en · NOUN

Etymology

From litter + fall.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Plant material that falls to the ground, such as leaves from trees.
   • Litterfall is provided for as long as the mature forest exists. 2008, Masami Miyaki, Koichi Kaji, “Shift to Litterfall as Year-Round Forage for Sika Deer after a Population Crash”, in Sika Deer, page 186:
2. (countable, usually) The total mass of plant material falling to the ground per unit area, or the mass collected at a specific site.
   • The remaining forest types had similar mean litterfalls ranging from 3333 to 6484 kg ha⁻¹ year⁻¹ 1986, K.A. Vogt et al., “Production, turnover, and nutrient dynamics of above- and belowground detritus of world forests”, in Advances in Ecological Research, volume 15, page 315:

Forms

Translations (4)

de Streufall (plant material that falls to the ground) · ko 낙엽량 (mass of fallen plant material per unit area) · ko 낙엽 (plant material that falls to the ground) · de Streufallmasse (mass of fallen plant material per unit area)