Question: Do coexisting plant life forms differ in overall phenology, leaf traits and patterns of leaf litterfall? Location: Patagonian Monte, Chubut Province, Argentina. Methods: We assessed phenology, traits of green and ...

Lignin phenols were measured in the sediments of Sepitiba Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in bedload sediments and suspended sediments of the four major fluvial inputs to the bay: Sao Francisco and Guandu Channels and the ...

The sugarcane bagasse is a heterogeneous material and needs a pretreatment to breakdown its complex structure to make cellulose accessible to enzyme action. This study aimed to evaluate pseudo-lignin formation, enzymatic ...

© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.This study assessed the capacity of leaf litters to adsorb copper ions applied as a copper-based pesticide. Leaf litters ...

Bioethanol can be produced from lignocellulosic material, however, due to the material recalcitrance, a pretreatment step is needed to improve cellulose accessibility. Dilute acid pretreatment improves the cellulose ...

Selective sheep grazing in the Patagonian Monte induces the reduction of total and perennial grass cover, species replacement within life forms, and the increase in dominance of long-lived evergreen woody plants with slow ...

We assessed leafing patterns (rate, timing, and duration of leafing) and leaf traits (leaf longevity, leaf mass per area and leaf-chemistry) in four co-occurring evergreen shrubs of the genus Larrea and Chuquiraga (each ...

Biomass conversion is challenged by the heterogeneity and lignin, a component that acts as a barrier to the enzymatic hydrolysis of polysaccharides. This study evaluated the effect of pretreatments on different fractions ...

In natural ecosystems plant litter is typically a mixture of more than one species and the rate of decomposition can be faster (synergistic) or slower (antagonistic) than the average of its component species(non-additive ...