Storage and Flux of Nutrients in Disturbed and Undisturbed Tropical Moist Forest of Eastern Nepal

Table 8

Amount of nutrients (kg ha^–1 yr^–1) in litterfall in undisturbed and disturbed forest stands of moist tropical forest of Sunsari district, eastern Nepal (mean ± SE).

Components	Undisturbed forest			Disturbed forest
	N	P	K	N	P	K
Leaf	74.5±6.5	6.5±0.4	55.9±5.6	37.7±2.8	3.3±0.1	28.3±2.4
Non leaf	25.2±1.6	1.9±0.1	8.5±0.7	8.8±0.5	0.7±0.05	3.0±0.02
Total	99.7±8.0	8.3±0.7	64.4±4.1	46.6±3.3	3.9±0.2	31.3±2.6