Introduction: This is the first report on insects associated with rabbit carcasses in indoor environment Kuching, Sarawak. Methods: study was conducted June till August of 2016. Rabbit (Oryctolagous cuniculus) which were used as animal model, placed inside a dark room building at Forensic Medicine Department Sarawak General Hospital. The fly larvae infesting collected until decomposition proces...

The differences between aquatic and terrestrial habitats could change microbial community composition regulate litter decomposition in a subtropical forest, but the linkage remains uncertain. Using phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs), associated with organisms was monitored to characterize of communities forest floor, headwater stream, intermittent stream. Habitat type did not significantly affect...

Rates of ecosystem processes such as decomposition are likely to change as a result of human impacts on the environment. In southern California, climate change and nitrogen (N) deposition in particular may alter biological communities and ecosystem processes. These drivers may affect decomposition directly, through changes in abiotic conditions, and indirectly through changes in plant and decom...

Mesofauna taxa fill key trophic positions in soil food webs, even in terrestrial-marine boundary habitats characterized by frequent natural disturbances. Salt marshes represent such boundary habitats, characterized by frequent inundations increasing from the terrestrial upper to the marine pioneer zone. Despite the high abundance of soil mesofauna in salt marshes and their important function by...

Abstract Biochar applications have an enormous impact on the soil microbial community and functionality. However, majority of knowledge biochar–microbe interaction derives almost exclusively from bacterial fungal studies, while vast eukaryotic diversity, protists, are mostly neglected. Protists play important roles in ecosystem as predators, decomposers, photoautotrophs, pathogens, parasites th...

Experimental efforts to determine how insects influence terrestrial wood decomposition are few, especially in temperate regions. To address this need, a five-year exclusion study was conducted in northern Mississippi, U.S.A., to quantify insect contributions to wood decay using one-meter loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) bolts. The study included three treatments: (1) ‘‘partially protected’’ bolts...