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Tropical terrestrial model ecosystems for evaluation of soil fauna and leaf litter quality effects on litter consumption, soil microbial biomass and plant growth

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Förster, Bernhard, Garcia, Marcos, Höfer, Hubert, Morgan, Edward, Römbke, Jörg·2009·Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
DOI 10.1590/s0100-204x2009000800040
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The aim of this work was to evaluate whether terrestrial model ecosystems (TMEs) are a useful tool for the study of the effects of litter quality, soil invertebrates and mineral fertilizer on litter decomposition and plant growth under controlled conditions in the tropics. Forty-eight intact soil cores (17.5-cm diameter, 30-cm length) were taken out from an abandoned rubber plantation on Ferralsol soil (Latossolo Amarelo) in Central Amazonia, Brazil, and kept at 28ºC in the laboratory during four months. Leaf litter of either Hevea pauciflora (rubber tree), Flemingia macrophylla (a shrubby legume) or Brachiaria decumbens (a pasture grass) was put on top of each TME. Five specimens of either Pontoscolex corethrurus or Eisenia fetida (earthworms), Porcellionides pruinosus or Circoniscus ornatus (woodlice), and Trigoniulus corallinus (millipedes) were then added to the TMEs. Leaf litter type significantly affected litter consumption, soil microbial biomass and nitrate concentration in the leachate of all TMEs, but had no measurable effect on the shoot biomass of rice seedlings planted in top soil taken from the TMEs. Feeding rates measured with bait lamina were significantly higher in TMEs with the earthworm P. corethrurus and the woodlouse C. ornatus. TMEs are an appropriate tool to assess trophic interactions in tropical soil ecossistems under controlled laboratory conditions.

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Metadata

Authors
Förster, B., Garcia, M., Höfer, H., Morgan, E., & Römbke, J.
Affiliations
  • ECT Oekotoxikologie (Germany) (DE)
  • Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental (BR)
  • State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe (DE)
  • University of Glamorgan (GB)
ORCID
Venue
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
Publisher
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Published
2009-08
Volume
44
Issue
8
Pages
1063-1071
ISSN
0100-204X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1590/s0100-204x2009000800040
OpenAlex
W2071919575
Cited by
9
References
46
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
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  • LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • Americanae (AECID Library) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
  • Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Environmental and biological studies
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
Keywords
leaf litter decomposition, litter quality, soil fauna, soil invertebrates, earthworms, terrestrial isopods, millipedes, soil microbial biomass, nitrate leaching, plant growth, rice seedlings, Flemingia macrophylla, Brachiaria decumbens, Pontoscolex corethrurus, Eisenia fetida, Porcellionides pruinosus, Trigoniulus corallinus, Ferralsols, Amazon

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