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Palatability of Selected Alpine Plant Litters for the Decomposer Lumbricus rubellus (Lumbricidae)

On alpine pastureland the decline in large-bodied earthworm numbers and biomass after abandonment of management might be the result of a shift from highly palatable grass litter to poorly digestible leaf litter of dwarf shrubs. To test this hypothesis, we analysed nitrogen, phosphorous and total phe...

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Main Authors: Rief, Alexander, Knapp, Brigitte A., Seeber, Julia
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3445458/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23028949
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045345
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