Title: Where are the decomposers? Uncovering the soil food web of a tropical montane rain forest in southern Ecuador using stable isotopes (<sup>15</sup>N)
Abstract: Trophic relationships among animals, plants and microflora are the basis for the construction of terrestrial and aquatic food webs, but both the structure and dynamics of food webs remain contentious. Examples of issues include how the overall nutrient status of a system affects the number of trophic levels, whether trophic-level omnivory and intraguild predation are rare or important, if different animal species can be aggregated into functional groups according to their taxonomic affiliation, how large numbers of decomposer animal species can coexist and why there are so many parthenogenetic taxa in soil.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-07-25
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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