| [environmental activity of earthworms (lumbricus terrestris l.) and the spatial organization of soil communities]. | the effect of feeding and burrowing activities of anecic earthworms (lumbricus terrestris) on abiotic characteristics of the soil, biomass and activity of soil microorganisms, and the spatial distribution of collembola and lumbricidae species was studied in a iinden forest near moscow. the results showed that organic carbon content, nitrogen content, ph, and microbial biomass and basal respiration are considerably higher around l. terrestris burrows than in the surrounding soil. the total densit ... | 2000 | 11042967 |
| detection and phylogenetic analysis of wolbachia in collembola. | wolbachia are obligatory, cytoplasmatically inherited alpha-proteobacteria which are known for infecting the reproductive tissues of many arthropods. their prevalence in the large group of collembola, however, is not known, except for pcr detection in the parthenogenetically reproducing species folsomia candida (order: entomobryomorpha; family: isotomidae). in this study, fluorescence in situ hybridization on microscopic sections of f. candida specimens indicated that wolbachia-related bacteria ... | 2004 | 14686939 |