Passive and Active Restoration Strategies to Activate Soil Biogeochemical Nutrient Cycles in a Degraded Tropical Dry Land

Table 3

Fitted models for residual dry matter (RDM) as a function of time for neem and mosquero leaf litter.

Plant species	Model	𝑡0.5	𝑡0.99	𝑘	𝑅^2	SSR	D-W
Mosquero (C. leptostachyus)	RDM = 1.29  *  𝑒^(−0.00919934∗𝑡)	0.21	1.37	3.36	0.97	0.06	1.31
Neem (A. indica)	RDM = 3  *  𝑒^(−0.00433362∗𝑡)	0.44	2.91	1.58	0.84	0.01	0.18

𝑡_0.5: decomposition time for half of the leaf litter, 𝑡_0.99: decomposition time for 99% of the leaf litter, 𝑘: yearly decomposition rate, 𝑅²: coefficient of determination, SSR: sum of squared error, D-W: Durbin-Watson statistics.