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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"soil invertebrates"”.
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Assessment of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contamination In Terrestrial Ecosystems Using Conventional and Novel Approaches
… to assess the toxicity of weathered PHC-impacted soils to native organisms, improve the efficiency and accuracy of current toxicological tests, and identify molecular biomarkers in a model springtail species, Folsomia candida, suitable for high-throughput toxicity testing. Weathered …
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Changes in soil invertebrate decomposer communities during regeneration of Scots Pine within the Abernethy Forest Reserve, Scotland
… an expansion on birds, mammals and above ground invertebrates have been previously been investigated, but little consideration has been given to soil invertebrates. This research looks at effects of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) regeneration on the meso- and macro- soil invertebrate communities. …
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Badgers as a proxy for environmental exposure to potentially toxic elements and ecosystem level interactions in soils
… environment, and changing the geochemistry of soils. This has led to increased levels of pollutants from anthropogenic sources, and ever higher levels have accumulated in environmental sinks, which are continually reaching new record-breaking levels. Such events are more nuanced at local …
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Il dilemma Cooperazione vs Competizione in applicazioni economiche e ecologiche
… data collected in the Netherlands, ecosystems of soil invertebrates are investigated through the knowledge of their characteristic trophic web. The first part focuses on a single ecosystem and a model is created whose dynamics is dictated by an extension of the Lotka-Volterra equations. In …
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The Effects of Simulated <i> Spermophilus Franklinii </i> Burrowing on Prairie Soil Invertebrate Communities
… invertebrate communities, and surrounding soil characteristics. Franklin’s ground squirrel (<em>Spermophilus franklinii</em>) is a declining, tunneling mammal species previously found throughout Central Illinois. Preference for natural tallgrass prairie habitat with loose soil marks …