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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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Alexander Rief, Brigitte A Knapp, Julia Seeber
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0045345&type=printable