The forest litterfall plays a significant role in regulating global biogeochemical cycles. The production of litter varies in different forest ecosystem across the globe and mainly controlled by vegetation type, phenology and environmental factors. The forest litter with chief constituent as nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, calcium, potassium helps in increasing soil fertility and moisture and helps in forest recovery and preservation. The litter decomposition process governed by temperature

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... ll, quality and composition is more important as it helps in mineralization of dead organic matter into useful substances that becomes a chief constituent of nutrient cycle. Thus litterfall as a carbon stock of different functional type ecosystem is significant in understanding particulate organic matter origin and cycling and global climate change.