04-08-2010, 03:37 AM
I did a research paper on Uluhe for school a few years ago. It has a stem decomposition rate that is 1/4 of most of the tropical vegetation, so the stem litter will remain for a while. In a typical Ohia forest, uluhe accounts for 75% of the net primary production, yet only a small proportion of the forest biomass. The perched biomass network that the uluhe stem create is a rather interesting way of limiting competition from other plants species.