Culliney, Thomas W. - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 4, pp. 629-659
proportion of the meso- and macrofauna of the soil. Within the litter/soil system, five groups are chiefly represented: Isopoda … of the three broad levels of organization of the soil food web: they are plant litter transformers or ecosystem engineers …. Litter transformers fragment, or comminute, and humidify ingested plant debris, which is deposited in feces for further …