Literature DB >> 28310023

Termites and the turnover of dead wood in an arid tropical environment.

R D Buxton1.   

Abstract

The standing crop of woody litter (317 g m-2) and its rate of production (30.8 g m-2 a-1) and disappearance (27.8 g m-2 a-1) were measured in Tsavo National Park, Kenya, at a site with a mean rainfall of 352 mm a-1. Dead wood took about 11 years to disappear completely. Almost all of this wood is removed by termites, 90% by the fungus-cultivating subfamily Macrotermitinae.

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Year:  1981        PMID： 28310023     DOI： 10.1007/BF00540909

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Oecologia        ISSN： 0029-8549            Impact factor:   3.225


  2 in total

1.  Changes in the composition and activities of termite communities in relation to changing rainfall.

Authors:  R D Buxton
Journal:  Oecologia       Date:  1981-01       Impact factor: 3.225

2.  The role of termites in the decomposition of wood and leaf litter in the Southern Guinea savanna of Nigeria.

Authors:  N M Collins
Journal:  Oecologia       Date:  1981-01       Impact factor: 3.225
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1.  Changes in the composition and activities of termite communities in relation to changing rainfall.

Authors:  R D Buxton
Journal:  Oecologia       Date:  1981-01       Impact factor: 3.225

2.  Elementary budget of stag beetle larvae associated with selective utilization of nitrogen in decaying wood.

Authors:  Masahiko Tanahashi; Hiroshi Ikeda; Kôhei Kubota
Journal:  Naturwissenschaften       Date:  2018-05-03

3.  Enzyme Activities at Different Stages of Plant Biomass Decomposition in Three Species of Fungus-Growing Termites.

Authors:  Rafael R da Costa; Haofu Hu; Bo Pilgaard; Sabine M E Vreeburg; Julia Schückel; Kristine S K Pedersen; Stjepan K Kračun; Peter K Busk; Jesper Harholt; Panagiotis Sapountzis; Lene Lange; Duur K Aanen; Michael Poulsen
Journal:  Appl Environ Microbiol       Date:  2018-02-14       Impact factor: 4.792

4.  Carbon fractions in the world's dead wood.

Authors:  Adam R Martin; Grant M Domke; Mahendra Doraisami; Sean C Thomas
Journal:  Nat Commun       Date:  2021-02-09       Impact factor: 14.919

5.  You eat what you find - Local patterns in vegetation structure control diets of African fungus-growing termites.

Authors:  Risto Vesala; Aleksi Rikkinen; Petri Pellikka; Jouko Rikkinen; Laura Arppe
Journal:  Ecol Evol       Date:  2022-03-06       Impact factor: 2.912

6.  Pycnoscelus surinamensis cockroach gut microbiota respond consistently to a fungal diet without mirroring those of fungus-farming termites.

Authors:  Callum Richards; Saria Otani; Aram Mikaelyan; Michael Poulsen
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2017-10-03       Impact factor: 3.240

7.  Isolation, characterization, and genome assembly of Barnettozyma botsteinii sp. nov. and novel strains of Kurtzmaniella quercitrusa isolated from the intestinal tract of the termite Macrotermes bellicosus.

Authors:  Gerard Arrey; Guangshuo Li; Robert Murphy; Leandro Guimaraes; Sefa Alizadeh; Michael Poulsen; Birgitte Regenberg
Journal:  G3 (Bethesda)       Date:  2021-12-08       Impact factor: 3.154
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