Table 1. Concentrations, pools and fluxes of total nitrogen in vegetation by part, litterfall by litter fraction, and soils by horizon in a Pleioblastus amarus bamboo forest.

Vegetation	bole	branch	leaf	root wood	rhizome	root		TOTAL
Biomass (Mg ha−1)	80.4 (4.6)	20.0 (2.3)	17.1 (0.9)	10.6 (0.6)	23.6 (1.2)	5.3 (0.8)		157.0 (4.7)
N concentration (g kg−1)	1.42 (0.06)	3.56 (0.25)	6.21 (0.08)	0.65 (0.01)	1.55 (0.10)	1.94 (0.04)
N pool (kg N ha−1)	114.1 (3.9)	77.7 (13.6)	106.0 (4.2)	6.9 (0.3)	36.6 (2.7)	10.4 (1.7)		351.7 (14.6)

SD in parentheses, Vegetation: n = 3, Litterfall: n = 10, Soil horizon: n = 3.