کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2026427 1070029 2007 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Stabilisation of soil organic matter in invertebrate faecal pellets through leaf litter grazing
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک دانش خاک شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Stabilisation of soil organic matter in invertebrate faecal pellets through leaf litter grazing
چکیده انگلیسی

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.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Soil Biology and Biochemistry - Volume 39, Issue 5, May 2007, Pages 1202–1205
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