Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

AM Potapov, F Beaulieu, K Birkhofer… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

Complementary contribution of fungi and bacteria to lignocellulose digestion in the food stored by a neotropical higher termite

EA Moreira, GF Persinoti, LR Menezes… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Lignocellulose digestion in termites is achieved through the functional synergy between gut
symbionts and host enzymes. However, some species have evolved additional associations …