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Provedor de dados: 	86	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Interactions of juvenile Lumbricus terrestris with adults and their burrow systems in a two-dimensional microcosm	
Autores: 	Grigoropoulou,Niki; Butt,Kevin R.; Lowe,Christopher N.	
Data: 	2009-08-01	
Ano: 	2009	
Palavras-chave: 	Anecic; Earthworm; Intraspecific interactions.	
Resumo: 	The objective of this work was to evaluate interactions of Lumbricus terrestris juveniles with adults and with inherited burrow systems. An experiment was set up using a two dimensional Evans' boxes microcosm. Adult L. terrestris were added to 16 boxes (one individual per box) and kept in darkness at 17ºC along with eight unoccupied boxes for two months. The adult L. terrestris were removed from eight randomly selected boxes, and L. terrestris juveniles were added (one juvenile per box), composing three treatments with eight replicates: 1, with an adult in an inherited burrow (ABJ); 2, alone in an inherited burrow (BJ); and 3, alone in a previously uninhabited box (J). The proportion of juveniles occupying adult burrows observed was significantly different in treatments ABJ (48%) and BJ (75%). The mean mass of juveniles at experimental termination differed significantly among treatments and was greater in treatment J (4.04±0.39 g) in comparison to the BJ (3.09±0.93 g) and ABJ treatments (2.13±0.64 g). Results suggest a negative influence of both the presence of an adult and its burrow system on juvenile growth. Intraspecific competition partially explained this, but further investigation is required to examine how an inherited environment (i.e. burrow) could negatively affect the growth of juveniles.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2009000800025	
Editor: 	Embrapa Secretaria de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira	
Relação: 	10.1590/S0100-204X2009000800025	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira  v.44 n.8 2009	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess