Table 1.
Main characteristics of the nine GEF study stands [35].
Fig 1.
Mean monthly temperature and monthly precipitation in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Table 2.
Simplified decision matrix for calculating production, mortality and decomposition of root [49].
Table 3.
Soil properties in the nine GEF study stands.
Table 4.
Annual litterfall mass (g m-2) sorted into three fractions (leaves, twigs, and others).
Fig 2.
Annual leaf litter mass in 2011 and 2012, stacked by species, for each of the nine GEF stands.
Other species indicates leaf litter from tree species other than the nine most prevalent species in deciduous forests and naturally regenerated species not planted in coniferous forests.
Fig 3.
Living ((a) and (b)) and dead ((c) and (d)) fine root mass in ingrowth cores during two years from April 2011 to April 2013 in five deciduous ((a) and (c)) and four coniferous ((b) and (d)) forests at the GEF, Korea.
Fig 4.
Annual fine root production and mortality in the nine stands in (a) 2011 and (b) 2012, estimated with the ingrowth core method. Vertical bars represent standard errors. Different letters above the vertical bars denote significant differences between the means of different stands (α = 0.05; Duncan’s multiple range test).
Table 5.
Fine root turnover rates in 2011 and 2012 across the nine stands.
Fig 5.
Relationships between the components of NPP across deciduous and coniferous forests in GEF.
WBP = woody biomass production; LFP = litterfall production; NPP = net primary production; FRP = fine root production. Symbols are: ● = deciduous forests in GEF, ○ = coniferous forests in GEF.