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Physical Litter Properties: Leaf Toughness and Tensile Strength

  • Graça M
  • Zimmer M
Springer International Publishing, (2020), 187-193
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30515-4_22
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Physical leaf attributes such as tensile strength and toughness have proved to be good predictors of litter decomposition by invertebrates and microbes. This chapter describes two methods for assessing leaf toughness and tensile strength, respectively. Toughness is...

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Graça, M. A. S., & Zimmer, M. (2020). Physical Litter Properties: Leaf Toughness and Tensile Strength. In Methods to Study Litter Decomposition (pp. 187–193). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30515-4_22

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