Soil Organisms as Components of Ecosystems
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...These continued discoveries mean that, despite studies on earthworm biological traits (Bouché, 1972, 1977) and life cycle characteristics such as birth, survival and reproduction rates (Lowe & Butt, 2002), we still do not have sufficient knowledge to choose the best earthworm species adapted to…...
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...Endogeic species make horizontal or randomly oriented burrows in the mineral soil, considered as temporary structures because they are rarely re-used (Bouché, 1977; Lee, 1985)....
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...Coleman et al. (1977), applying the first approach, studied carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus mineralization in laboratory microcosms containing sterilized soil inoculated either with bacteria alone or bacteria in combination with bacteriophagous amoebae or nematodes....
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