کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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2026427 | 1070029 | 2007 | 4 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

Soils were amended with either leaf litter or faeces from pill millipedes fed on the leaf litter, then incubated at 20 °C for 130 days whilst monitoring the respiration rates. Significantly more CO2 was respired from soil containing leaf litter than that amended with an equivalent weight of faecal matter, whilst the unamended soil exhibited a respiration rate similar to soil amended with faecal material. Consideration of these findings with recently observed differences in biochemical compositions of litter and faeces suggests that processing of plant litter by detritivores leads to more stabilised forms of organic matter by removal of biochemical components essential to the nutrient requirements of the invertebrate and the soil microbial biomass.
Journal: Soil Biology and Biochemistry - Volume 39, Issue 5, May 2007, Pages 1202–1205