Objective To examine whether earthworms of Eisenia fetida, Lumbricus rubellus and
Eudrilus eugeniae extracts have elastase, tyrosinase and matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP …

四川盆地亚热带常绿阔叶林土壤动物对几种典型凋落物分解的影响 Page 1 生态环境学报2013,
22(9): 1488-1495 http://www.jeesci.com Ecology and Environmental Sciences E-mail: editor@jeesci.com …

Soil fauna play an important role in ecosystems, and in this context, it is important to better
understand how the abiotic and biotic drivers of these organisms interact. We hypothesize …

The composition of the soil fauna community have played an important role in regulating
decomposition and nutrient cycling in agro-ecosystems (include cocoa plantation). Changes …

Ant and earthworm can act as soil ecosystem engineers. Ant and earthworm are very
dominant in smallholder cocoa plantation. The first experiment aimed to study the effect of …

The degradation of environmental quality has become a global problem today. One way to
address this is by providing green open spaces that help maintain environmental quality …

An understanding of the structure of the soil food web is critical in determining the practices
of soil fertility management based on the biological processes in tropical agricultural …

Soil fauna as ecosystem engineers and biochar play a role in spore modulating of
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). This study aims to analyze the effect of the soil fauna …

Earthworm is one of the important macro-fauna in cocoa plantation ecosystem that affects
the structure and activity of soil microbes. Earthworms maintain nutrient cycle and affect the …

Earthworms have the ability in modifying soil biological quality for plant growth. Their ability
is mostly depending on its ecological groups. The objectives of the research were to study …