Plant Litter
Effects of eutrophication on stream-dwelling decomposers of plant-litter
... More recently, by using other molecular techniques, such as cloning libraries, Seena and collaborators (2008) were able to recover fungal sequences from plant-litter decomposing in freshwaters. However, due ...
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Contribution of topography and inCident Solar radiation to Variation of Soil and plant litter at an area with heterogeneouS terrain
... and plant litter properties are controlled by multiple ...and litter properties in tropical ecosystems covering heterogeneous ...and litter variation in a tropical area that intercepts ...
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Bioprospecting Aspergillus section Nigri in Atlantic Forest soil and plant litter
... from plant litter and soil from the Atlantic Forest biome and evaluate it with regards to hydrolytic enzyme ...the plant litter layer and ...
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Effects of plant-litter quality on litter decomposition by benthic invertebrates along a gradient of eutrophication
... other diversity metrics based on benthic macroinvertebrates. We observed that leaf mass loss changed along the gradient of eutrophication lending support to the idea that leaf-litter decomposition could be used as ...
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A DEVICE AND STANDARD VARIABLES TO DESCRIBE MICROHABITAT STRUCTURE OF SMALL MAMMALS BASED ON PLANT COVER
... empty. PLANT, LITTER, ROCK, and CANOPY are measured at the five stakes of each trapping ...station. PLANT, LITTER, and ROCK are measured, by the observer holding the frame parallel to the ...
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Emissão de gases durante a decomposição anaeróbia de recursos vegetais
... twigs, plant litter, sugar cane stalks and leaves, soybean leaves, grasses, forest leaves and Typha domingensis) was attributed to catabolic processes involving the oxidation of labile ...the plant ...
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Eutrophication alters the effects of riparian plant diversity on litter decomposition by macroinvertebrates
... of litter decomposition (Baldy et ...to litter decomposition only after plant litter has been partially broken down (Baldy et ...to litter decomposition declines with latitude, whereas ...
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Contribution of Soil Fauna to Foliar Litter-Mass Loss in Winter in an Ecotone between Dry Valley and Montane Forest in the Upper Reaches of the Minjiang River.
... of litter decomposition is primarily controlled by the litter quality [38,39], soil organisms [6], ecosystem vegetation type [40], and environmental conditions ...the litter decomposition throughout ...
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Palatability of selected alpine plant litters for the decomposer Lumbricus rubellus (Lumbricidae).
... grass litter to poorly digestible leaf litter of dwarf ...aged litter of eight commonly occuring alpine plant species and compared consumption rates of these food sources in a controlled ...
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A novel source of atmospheric H<sub>2</sub>: abiotic degradation of organic material
... The plant litter incubation experiments were conducted in a custom built quartz chamber (Blue Flame Technologies, McKinney, TX) that was transparent to over 85 % of the ra- diation generated from the solar ...
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Evaluating leaf litter beetle data sampled by Winkler extraction from Atlantic forest sites in southern Brazil
... arboreal arthropods, the arthropod fauna of dead, suspended leafs showed little seasonality. Our results are in accordance with these findings as, in spite of differences in species den- sity and abundance, the ...
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Effects of forest structure on litter production, soil chemical composition and litter–soil interactions
... because litter helps incorporate carbon and nutrients from plants into the soil and is directly involved in plant–soil ...leaf litter input, leaf decomposition rate, litter quality and soil ...
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ISSN 1516-635X May - Jun 2016 v.18 n.2 247-254 http:dx.doi.org10.15901806-9061-2015-0047 Incidence of Pododermatitis in Broiler Reared under Two Types of Environment
... reused litter; house 2 (A2) had positive pressure and new litter (sawdust); house 3 (A3) had positive pressure and new litter (rice husks); and house 4 (A4) had negative pressure and reused ...and ...
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Ciclagem biogeoquímica e modelagem de biomassa e nutrientes em povoamento de eucalipto em solo do Cerrado
... The prediction of biological processes, which involves growth and plant development, is possible through the adjustment of mathematical models. In the forest area, this tool assists in management practices, ...
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Effect of Litter Substrates on the Performance, Carcass Traits, and Environmental Comfort of Red-Winged Tinamou (Rhynchotus Rufescens)
... High levels of ammonia volatilization indicate high microbial populations, which produce high levels of urease (Fenn et al., 1987). In the current trial, however, no positive linear relationship between microbial counts ...
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ISSN 1516-635X Apr - Jun 2017 v.19 n.2 247-254 http:dx.doi.org10.15901806-9061-2016-0396 Effect of Litter on Development and Severity of Foot- Pad Dermatitis and Behavior of Broiler Chickens
... Various litter amendments such as chemicals - aluminum sulfate (Madrid et ...reduce litter moisture, pH and NH 3 emission in broiler ...such litter treatments might have positive effects on the ...
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Effects of Residue Management on Decomposition in Irrigated Rice Fields Are Not Related to Changes in the Decomposer Community.
... The litter mass losses in our fine-meshed bags represented microbial driven decomposition, since microarthropods show comparatively low abundances in flooded rice agriculture [41] and therefore are assumed to have ...
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Contribution of shredder macroinvertebrates and aquatic hyphomycetes to litter decomposition in remote insular streams
... sewing litter mesh bags and weighing leaves, to the field work where we passed lots of hours inside the streams with our hands frozen and totally wet because of the ...
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Valéria Maria Nascimento Abreu1 , Doralice Pedroso de Paiva1 , Paulo Giovanni de Abreu1, Arlei Coldebella1
... of litter material or ...shavings litter reused for four flocks and equipped with automatic feeders, the average numbers of insects trapped in the first flock were ...average litter temperature in ...
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Ecological relations between mangrove leaf litter and the spatial distribution of the gastropod Melampus coffeus in a fringe mangrove forest
... and algae amounts and pneumatophore length in the demographic density of the snails Ophicardelus spp. and Salinator solida (Martens, 1878). They manipulated these environmental features and verified that even though ...
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