Talk:Plant litter

Merger proposal: Soil litter into Litterfall
The Soil litter article starts out with a sentence defining the concept, and half the sentence is a wikilinked phrase that goes to this article. This article says litterfall is also called leaf litter or soil litter. Reading both articles, it is clear there is almost total overlap. I am not a biologist, but the only difference I can see is that the litterfall article is about a process, and in explaining that process makes much mention of the soil layer where an important part of the process occurs, and the soil litter article is about said soil layer, and makes mention of the process. The two concepts are so inter-related it would surely better serve the reader to have one article.--Brambleshire (talk) 15:35, 24 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree with the idea of merging these articles. I think plant litter might be the best location for the merged article, since it includes the process of litter fall and the litter in the soil. Guettarda (talk) 17:09, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Move proposal

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The result of the move request was: uncontested move. DrKiernan (talk) 17:54, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Litterfall → Plant litter – Request made 29 April 2012 by user:Brambleshire using template:movenotice. Reason given by Brambleshire: "better article name would be plant litter ... because it would encompass needles, bark, etc." -- PBS (talk) 21:25, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

As suggested above, a better article name would be plant litter. See also the talk page for the duplicate artice I just merged into this one, where there is a comment to the effect that leaf litter may be the most commonly used term. I prefer plant litter over leaf litter because it would encompass needles, bark, etc.--Brambleshire (talk) 03:10, 29 April 2012 (UTC)


 * See also Forest floor, Brown waste, and Green waste. Fallen leaves gets by far the most google hits (3 million), such as this one, but hundreds are for a song of that name. Apteva (talk) 01:54, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
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