
Vegetation surveying

Litter fall
This is FutMon programme work package D2.
Sites
* indicates a Level II forest monitoring plot.
Oak
Scots pine
Sitka spruce
Measurements
- Deposition
- Soil Solution
- Chemical analysis of litterfall fractionation (K, Ca, Mg, C, N, P ,S)
- Intensive foliar survey
- Destructive sampling
- Functional group analysis
- Biomass
- Chemical analysis
- Ground vegetation nutrient budget
- Leaf area index
Output
- Data on nutrient fluxes and deposition
- Loss of base cations
- Loss of nitrogen
- Input/output of nutrients
- Nutrient budgets in vegetation
- Critical load calculations