In the boreal forest, decomposition is often slow and an accumulation of organic matter on the soil is common. This layer is inhabited by enormous numbers of soil organisms: fungi, bacteria and invertebrate animals. These organisms take part in the decomposition of organic matter; as the ...
Bomberg M, Jurgens G, Saano A, Sen R, Timonen S (2003) Nested PCR detection of Archaea in defined compartments of pine mycorrhizospheres developed in boreal forest humus micro-cosms. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 43:163-171 PubMed CAS Google Scholar Bonkowski M (2004) Protozoa and plant growth:...
Deadwood in boreal forest in summer. Decomposing fallen tree in lying on moss-covered forest floor. Decomposing trees are valuable habitat for many species of organisms. ,站酷海洛,一站式正版视觉内容平台,站酷旗下品牌.授权内容包含正版商业图片、艺术插画、矢
African bush elephants are the largest living terrestrial animals, being up to 3.96 m tall at the shoulders. It is the larger of the two species of African elephant such as the African bush elephant and the African forest elephant. On average, males are 3.3 m tall and 5.5 tonnes in weight...
Rock weathering is a key process in global elemental cycling. Life participates in this process with tangible consequences observed from the mineral interface to the planetary scale. Multiple lines of evidence show that microorganisms may play a pivotal
Recently, Zinger et al. showed that the size of soil biota was an important determinant of community assembly, and soil mesofauna was more stochastically-assembled than microorganisms in a tropical forest of French Guiana [21]. Hypothetically, the regional species pool should be reduced into taxa...
Around 2.5 billion years ago, our planet experienced what was possibly the greatest change in its history: According to the geological record, molecular oxygen suddenly went from nonexistent to becoming freely available everywhere. Evidence for the “great oxygenation event” ...
Dioxins may be formed in nature by volcanic activity, forest fires and microbial activity, but widespread distribution in natural environments originate from side-products of anthropogenic activities such as refuse incineration, herbicide production and chlor-alkali processes (Kulkarni et al., 2008; ...
Weathering represents severe destruction to outdoor cultural rock heritages. In the process, biological weathering caused by microorganisms is known to be
We tested this hypothesis for dead-wood-dependent macrofungi, lichens, and beetles in a boreal forest landscape in central Sweden, assuming that species are adapted to conditions similar to today's unmanaged forest. No occurrence patterns, for the species groups which we investigated, were ...