Litterfall at a global scale is affected by climate, edaphic features and vegetation structure, with litter production increasing from grasslands to forests following the rise in standing biomass. However, at landscape scales, the same relationship between litter production and vegetation structure has rarely been studied and comparisons of litterfall patterns between adjacent, structurally distinct communities are lacking. Here, we use a standardized methodology to describe the structural differences among four savanna physiognomies and analyze their relationship with changes in litterfall across the Cerrado.

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将凋落物的时空变化与巴西大草原的立地植被生物量联系起来

全球范围内的凋落物受到气候，土质特征和植被结构的影响，随着固定生物量的增加，从草地到森林的凋落物产量增加。然而，在景观尺度上，很少研究凋落物产量与植被结构之间的相同关系，并且缺乏对相邻，结构不同的群落之间凋落物格局的比较。在这里，我们使用标准化的方法来描述四种热带稀树草原相貌的结构差异，并分析它们与整个塞拉多地区凋落物变化的关系。