… Chemical components of the leaf litter after the washing procedure show temporal changes
… Our results show that Japanese cedar canopies retain the various qualities of leaf litter, …

… litter layer to surface mineral soil layer was relatively slow, our results suggest that litter removal
… Notably, while this study evaluated the effect of litter removal in a Japanese cedar forest, …

… forests in Japan. Sanderson et al. have reported that litter-removal decontamination …
ambient dose rate in a Japanese cedar plantation affected by the Fukushima NPP accident. …

… Today, Japanese cedar plantations are the most common type of artificial forest in Japan. …
In commercial Japanese cedar plantations, the amount of forest litter and its decomposition …

… DON), which is a popular Japanese plantation species, is usually planted on relatively
fertile soils (… processes in the surface soils and on the seedling growth of Japanese cedar. …

… Also, it indicated that hardwood forest floor might recover after a few years from the artificial
removal of all litters on A horizon. Humification processes in coniferous forest floors have not …

… Living and dead roots and litter were then removed from the samples. The carbon content of
… in the present study, that is, the loss rate of the cedar leaf litter was lower than that of the red …

… 20 m, and there was no canopy litter on the trees below 6 m above the ground because a
light pruning operation in 1981 removed branches below this height, and there was no …

… , and had a significant negative correlation with litter C:N ratio. The oldest (… Japanese cedar
plantation develops, soil N dynamics can be altered by the quantity and quality of input litter …

… litter, obtained from Japanese cedar and deciduous broadleaf forests located 40 km from the
site of the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident. The litter … in the litter was …