Facilitative and Inhibitory Effect of Litter on Seedling Emergence and Early Growth of Six Herbaceous Species in an Early Successional Old Field Ecosystem

Figure 1

Soil temperature ((a) and (b)) and moisture ((c) and (d)) under different litter cover treatments. The lines represent the temporal dynamic of soil temperature and moisture; the bars with mean + SE represent mean soil temperature and moisture from 27 April 2011 to 7 June 2011; different letters indicate significant difference between treatments at 𝑃<0.05.

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