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Tipo: Artigo
Título: Trophic controls delaying foraging by termites: reasons for the ground being brown?
Autor(es): DeSouza, O.
Araújo, A.P.A.
Reis-Jr, R.
Abstract: Why is the ground brown, when detritivores and decomposers have the numbers and ability to speed up the turnover of dark-coloured soil organic carbon? We consider this soil analogue to the ‘green world’ hypothesis measuring in the field how fast termites occupied cellulosic baits of varying quantity and quality and how predation risks by ants affect such encounters. Single baits with ants were occupied by termites later than triple baits without ants, implying that termites may spend longer searching for suitable food than feeding on it, thereby delaying decomposition rates of both chosen and neglected items. Because termites' feeding speeds up dissimilation of polymers by decomposers, such results may imply that bottom-up and top-down forces, ultimately, impair carbon processing and release from soil. We argue that the ground is brown partly because of delays imposed upon termites' use of resources by bottom-up and top-down forces.
Palavras-chave: Detritivory
Carbon flux
Decomposition
Trophic controls
Predation risks
Insecta: Isoptera
Editor: Bulletin of Entomological Research
Tipo de Acesso: Cambridge University Press
URI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000748530900666X
http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/19156
Data do documento: 3-Nov-2008
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