Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-19T06:26:42.797Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Invertebrates in the litter and soil on the ultramafic Mount Giting-Giting, Philippines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Len Thomas  and
John Proctor
Len Thomas
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland
John Proctor
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'

Keywords

altitudinal zonationPhilippinesserpentinesultramafic soilsoil invertebrates
Type
Short Communication
Information
Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 125 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

LITERATURE CITED

Anon. 1983. Soil taxonomy: a basic system of classification for making and interpreting soil surveys. Wiley Interscience, New York, 754 pp.Google Scholar
Atkin, L. & Proctor, J. 1988. Invertebrates in the litter and soil on Volcán Barva, Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology 4:307–310.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grubb, P. J. 1977. Control of forest growth and distribution on wet tropical mountains: with special reference to mineral nutrition. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 8:83–107.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lavelle, P., Dangerfield, M., Fragoso, C., Eschenbrenner, V., Lopez-Hernandez, D., Pashanasij, B. & Brussard, L. 1994. The relationship between soil macrofauna and tropical soil fertility. Pp. 137–169 in Woolmer, P. L. & Swift, M. J. (eds). The biological management of tropical soil fertility. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.Google Scholar
Leakey, R. J. G. & Proctor, J. 1987. Invertebrates in the litter and soil at a range of altitudes on Gunung Silam, a small ultrabasic mountain in Sabah. Journal of Tropical Ecology 3:119–129.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marrs, R. H., Proctor, J., Heaney, A. & Mountford, M. D. 1988. Changes in soil nitrogen-mineralization and nitrification along an altitudinal transect in tropical rain forest in Costa Rica. Journal of Ecology 76:466–482.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pagasa, (1989). Report on Romblon Province. The Climatological Division, Nagado, Quezon City, Republic of the Philippines. 6pp.Google Scholar
Whitmore, T. C. 1984. Tropical rain forests of the Far East (2nd edition) Oxford University Press, Oxford. 352 pp.Google Scholar