Search Results for soil detritivores

... invertebrate assemblages is supported. Key words: rainforest, trophic structure, detritivore, herbivore, litter biomass, foliage cover Published: 03 March 2025 DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2025.008 Introduction There has been widespread interest in and concern about the apparent global declines in insect...

... behaviour and habitat, and provides a quantitative measure of ingested food (Mensink and Henry 2011). The vast majority of land snails are detritivores and many exhibit a generalist feeding strategy (Mensink and Henry 2011), consuming a variety of food including fungi (Wolda et al. 1971; Butler 1976...

... (typically 1-3 ha in good habitat) and may occur at relatively high densities in favoured habitats such as tall wet eucalypt forests on richer soils (Lindenmayer 1997, 2002). A recent genetic study has suggested that the Greater Glider is actually three species: P. volans in Victoria and New South Wales...

...), which is not replicated in Australia (Thiele 1977; Baehr and Will 2019). However, the low diversity of Australian terrestrial Carabidae is compensated by a high diversity of slow moving but relatively large forest-floor detritivores and other scavengers, particularly in the families Curculionidae...

...). Hotter temperatures associated with high severity fires increase invertebrate mortality via greater combustion of organic material (which reduces the availability of habitat post-fire) and radiant heat penetrating deeper into soil and wood, killing individuals and eggs (Wikars and Schimmel 2001; Arnold...

... the developing gynoecium (Armstrong and Irvine 1990). However, little is known of the life history of Elleschodes. Zimmerman (in Armstrong and Irvine 1990) noted the presence of large fat bodies in north Queensland Elleschodes species. This suggests that the weevils may be able to remain inactive within the soil...