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Table 1.

Main characteristics of the selected forest sites in this study.

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Table 2.

Information on the litter composition for individual forest sites.

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Figure 1.

Remaining amount of leaf litter dry mass, carbon, nitrogen and total lignin during decomposition under different forest system management practices.

Norway spruce age-class forest (blue, SA), European beech age-class forest (red, BA), European beech selective cut forest (green, BS) and unmanaged deciduous forest reserves dominated by European beech (black, BU) (mean ± SD, n = 3). Different letters indicate significant differences according to one-way ANOVA incorporating Fisher’s Least Significant Difference (from 89 DAI to 473 DAI).

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Table 3.

Mean decay rate constants (k), coefficients of determination (r2) describing the fit of the decay model (P<0.05), and mean percentage of leaf remaining mass at the end of the study (473 days after incubation) under different forest system management practices.

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Table 4.

Initial chemical composition of dried leaf litter under different forest management practices (Mean±SD, n = 3).

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Figure 2.

C/N and total lignin/N ratios in leaf litter during 473 days of decomposition under different forest system management practices.

Norway spruce age-class forest (blue, SA), European beech age-class forest (red, BA), European beech selective cut forest (green, BS) and unmanaged deciduous forest reserves dominated by European beech (black, BU) (mean ± SD, n = 3). Different letters indicate significant differences according to one-way ANOVA incorporating Fisher’s Least Significant Difference (from 89 DAI to 473 DAI).

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Figure 3.

Percent of initial magnesium (Mg), potassium (K), calcium (Ca) and phosphorous (P) during decomposition under different forest system management practices.

Norway spruce age-class forest (blue, SA), European beech age-class forest (red, BA), European beech selective cut forest (green, BS) and unmanaged deciduous forest reserves dominated by European beech (black, BU) (mean ± SD, n = 3). Different letters indicate significant differences according to one-way ANOVA incorporating Fisher’s Least Significant Difference (from 89 DAI to 473 DAI).

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Figure 4.

Mean ligninolytic enzyme activities in leaf litter under different forest system management practices.

Norway spruce age-class forest (blue, SA), European beech age-class forest (red, BA), European beech selective cut forest (green, BS) and unmanaged deciduous forest reserves dominated by European beech (black, BU) (mean+SD, n = 3). Different letters indicate significant differences according to one-way ANOVA incorporating Fisher’s Least Significant Difference (from 89 DAI to 473 DAI). *At 180 DAI, MnP activity of unmanaged deciduous forest reserves dominated by European beech = 0.

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Table 5.

Effects of forest system management practice, days after incubation commenced and their interactions on ligninolytic enzyme activity (P<0.05).

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