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1. Introduction In northeastern Mexico there are different types of vegetation such as pine forest, oak forest, the pine-oak forest, and the subtropical woodlands, typical of the semi-arid plains (Vargas, 1999). These ecosystems include a variety of deciduous species used as forage to domestic and wild ruminants; in addition, as forestry resources to human beings, reforestation practices, timber and charcoal production. Therefore, this region provides an opportunity to investigate the nutrient return and biogeochemical cycles as a measure of ecosystem productivity through litterfall deposition (leaves, twigs, inflorescences, fruits, seeds and others) and to characterize their contribution of nutrients to the forest soil. Litterfall is an important process in the nutrient cycle, which determines the renewal and input of organic matter to the soil (Cantu and Gonzalez, 2001). More than half of the annual absorption of nutrients in the woods is due to the return of litter to soil (Del Valle, 2003). The production and litter decomposition are important mechanisms in the nutrient cycling in vegetation areas (Steubing et al., 2001). Nevertheless, Palma et al. (2000) argue that seasonal differences in production and nutritional quality of litter could be related to extreme climatic fluctuations and/or phenological changes such as abscission and bud initiation, flowering and fruiting. Deposition of micronutrients from leaves plays an important role through soil covering and modifying its environment. In addition, litterfall decomposition becomes a source of organic matter enhancing the geochemical cycles of elements (Gliessman, 2002). Studies conducted by Del Valle (2003), Vasconcelos and Luizão (2004) and Gonzalez et al. (2008) agreed about the quantities of annual inputs of nutrients through literfall, which are cycled by the leaf fallen litterfall as a main source.

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list of referred journals for citation GENERAL AGRICULTURE 1. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 2. International Journal of Tea Science (IJTS) 3. Plant Production Science 4. Journal of Wildlife Management 5. Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 6. Journal of Intellectual Property Rights 7. Journal Forensic Sciences 8. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 9. Journal of Agricultural Science, Cambridge 10. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology 11. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 12. Outlook on Agriculture 13. Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry 14. International Journal of Agriculture & Biology 15. Field Crops Research 16. Experimental Agriculture 17. Crop Science 18. Current Science 19. Canadian Journal of Plant Science 20. Australian Journal of Crop Science 21. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - A 22. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica – B 23. Euphytica 24. Legume Research 25. Geoderma 26. Nature 27. Journal of Plant Research 28. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 29. Journal of Plant Interactions 30. Seed Science Research NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 1. Indian Journal of Agronomy 2. European Journal of Agronomy 3. Agronomy Journal (Journal of American Society of Agronomy) 4. Agronomy for Sustainable Development (Agronomie) 5. Advances in Agronomy 6. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 7. Irrigation and Drainage 8. Irrigation Science 9. Irrigation and Drainage 10. Weed Technology

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11. Weed Science 12. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering (ASCE) 13. Paddy Water Environment 14. Rice (Springer) 15. Nutrition Journal 16. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems (Fertilizer Research) 17. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 18. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 19. Journal of Hydrology 20. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 21. Journal of Agrometeorology 22. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (Zeitschrift for Pflanzenernahrung und Bodenkunde) 23. Journal of Plant Nutrition 24. Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science 25. Plant and Soil 26. Plant Soil and Environment 27. Soil and Tillage Research 28. Soil Use and Management 29. European Journal of Soil Biology 30. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 31. Australian Journal of Soil Research 32. European Journal of Soil Science (Journal of Soil Science) 33. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 34. Journal of Water Management 35. Agricultural Water Management HORTICULTURE 1. Indian Journal of Horticulture 2. Scientia Horticulturae 3. European Journal of Hort. Sci. 4. New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science 5. Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology (Journal of Horticultural Science, England) 6. Journal of American Society for Horticultural Science 7. Journal of Applied Horticulture PLANT PROTECTION 1. European Journal of Plant Pathology 2. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology 3. Australasian Plant Pathology 4. American Journal of Pathology 5. Indian Journal of Virology Indexed in

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