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Amounts of nutrients (kg ha–1 year–1) taken up by the superficial root mat during litter decay, estimated from eqn (2)
| From June 1998 to May 1999 | From June 1999 to May 2000 | |||||||||
| N | P | K | Ca | Mg | N | P | K | Ca | Mg | |
| Litter decay | 35 | 3·0 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 57 | 3·2 | 4 | 21 | 22 |
| Throughfall + stemflow | 3 | 1·2 | 6 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 1·1 | 7 | 15 | 3 |
| Run‐off | 0 | 0·0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0·0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Leaching beneath the forest floor | 3 | 3·2 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4·8 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| Uptake inside the forest floor | 35 | 1·0 | 5 | 25 | 11 | 57 | –0·5 | 4 | 29 | 21 |
