CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 67Insect and Arachnid Ecology and BehaviorEcology and biodiversity studiesSoil and Unsaturated Flow

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 43 of the 43 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

TERMITES AS MEDIATORS OF THE WATER ECONOMY OF ARID SAVANNA ECOSYSTEMS

TURNER, J. Scott·2006·Dryland Ecohydrology
DOI 10.1007/1-4020-4260-4_17
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Abstract Large termite mounds, constructed by colonies of various species of macrotermitine termites (Isoptera, Termitidae, Macrotermitinae), are dominant features of the arid and semi-arid savannas of southern Africa. These mounds can populate a savanna in very high densities, generally one to four colonies per hectare, containing biomass of termites and symbiotic fungi that exceeds the typical biomass of vertebrate and non-termite arthropod herbivores in these systems. Termites’ construction of nest and mound turns over savanna soils at substantial rates, and, like other central-place foragers, they convey significant quantities of inorganic and organic matter into their nests, concentrating it there. In short, macrotermitine termites are “ecosystem engineers”, structuring and controlling to a large extent the flows of energy and matter through tropical savannas (Dangerfield et al. 1998).

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1007/1-4020-4260-4_17

Cites

43 of 43 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Research works printed but not linked: 5

  1. Boyer P. 1973. Action de certains termites constructeurs sur l'évolution des sols tropicaux I. Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie Paris sér. 12 15, 329–498.
  2. Boyer P. 1975a. Action de certains termites constructeurs sur l'évolution des sols tropicaux II. Etude particuliére de trois termitieres de Bellicositermeset de leur action sur les sols tropicaux. Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie Paris sér. 12 17, 273–446.
  3. Boyer P. 1975b. Action de certains termites constructeurs sur l'évolution des sols tropicaux III. Les différents aspects de l'action de Bellicositermessur les sols tropicaux. Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie Paris sér. 12 17, 447–504.
  4. Ruelle J. E., Coaton W. G. H. and Sheasby J. L. 1975 National survey of the Isoptera of southern Africa 8. The genus Macrotermes Holmgren (Termitidae: Macrotermitinae). Cimbebasia 3A, 73–94.
  5. West W. F. 1970. The Bulawayo Symposium Papers: no 2. Termite prospecting. Chamber of Mines Journal 30, 32–35.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

See all 67

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
TURNER, J. S.
Affiliations
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (US)
Corresponding author
TURNER, J. Scott
ORCID
TURNER, J. Scott
Venue
Dryland Ecohydrology
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published
2006-02-02
Pages
303-313
DOI
10.1007/1-4020-4260-4_17
OpenAlex
W1613542275
Cited by
66
References
43
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 2
FWCI
3.99
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Soil and Unsaturated Flow
Keywords
termite mounds, water economy, ecosystem engineering, soil turnover, central place foragers, termite-fungus symbiosis, nutrient cycling

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review