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| Förster,Bernhard; Garcia,Marcos; Höfer,Hubert; Morgan,Edward; Römbke,Jörg. |
| 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),... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Brachiaria decumbens; Flemingia macrophylla; Hevea pauciflora; Diplopods; Earthworms; Isopods. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2009000800040 |
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