SOIL MESO-FAUNA PATTERNS AND EXPERIMENTS ON LEAF LITTER MITE FUNGIVORY: PREFERENCES, EFFECTS ON FUNGAL REPRODUCTION AND DECOMPOSITION

We investigated patterns of community structure of soil meso-fauna in an tropical cloud forest. The leaf litter habitat and the actual soil below were found to support structurally different communities. Leaf litter appeared to be a complex, heterogeneous, habitat whereas soil was homogeneous. The a...

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Main Authors: Guevara, Roger, Villedo, Lorenzo, Nájera, Andrea
Format: Online
Language:eng
Published: Instituto de Ecología, A.C. 2002
Online Access:https://azm.ojs.inecol.mx/index.php/azm/article/view/1797