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Detritivore Activity

Detritivore Activity is a biological process denoting the collective feeding behavior of detritivores on dead organic matter, distinguished within decomposition dynamics by its direct role in fragmenting and translocating litter material, thereby accelerating microbial colonization and nutrient release in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

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Detritus Food Webs in Conventional and No-Tillage Agroecosystems

Paul F. Hendrix, Robert W. Parmelee, D. A. Crossley et al. · BioScience · 1986 · 643 citations

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THE ROLE OF DETRITUS IN THE NUTRITION OF TWO MARINE DEPOSIT FEEDERS, THE PROSOBRANCH <i>HYDROBIA ULVAE</i> AND THE BIVALVE <i>MACOMA BALTHICA</i>

Richard Newell · Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London · 1965 · 437 citations

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Effects of Watershed Perturbation on Stream Potassium and Calcium Dynamics

Jackson R. Webster, Bernard C. Patten · Ecological Monographs · 1979 · 374 citations

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STUDIES ON THE DECOMPOSITION OF ORGANIC DETRITUS DERIVED FROM THE TURTLE GRASS <i>THALASSIA TESTUDINUM</i>1

Tom Fenchel · Limnology and Oceanography · 1970 · 368 citations · Full text

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The effects of collembola grazing on microbial activity in decomposing leaf litter

R.D.G. Hanlon, J. M. Anderson · Oecologia · 1979 · 316 citations

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    Nico Eisenhauer

    Leipzig University, Germany

    5 publications · 332 citations

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    Luz Boyero

    Ikerbasque, Spain

    5 publications · 154 citations

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    Martin Zimmer

    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

    4 publications · 180 citations

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    Javier Pérez

    University of the Basque Country, Spain

    4 publications · 119 citations

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    Stefan Scheu

    University of Göttingen, Germany

    4 publications · 187 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    38 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. University of Göttingen

    Göttingen, Germany

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    752 citations

  3. University of Georgia

    Athens, United States

    6 h-index

    14 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research

    Leipzig, Germany

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    651 citations

  5. North Carolina State University

    Raleigh, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    605 citations

  6. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    497 citations

  7. University of the Basque Country

    Leioa, Spain

    5 h-index

    21 publications

    496 citations

  8. Ikerbasque

    Bilbao, Spain

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    154 citations

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  1. Oecologia

    13 publications · 1.3K citations

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  2. Freshwater Biology

    12 publications · 686 citations

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  3. Soil Biology and Biochemistry

    11 publications · 679 citations

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  4. Marine Biology

    9 publications · 624 citations

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