Gut content analysis and a new feeding group classification of termites
By S. Donovan, P. Eggleton, D. Bignell. 2001
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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics
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- Evolution of termite functional diversity: analysis and synthesis of local ecological and regional influences on local species richness (2003, background): “…world termite fauna can be classified into four feeding groups according to the position of their food substrates 2003 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Journal of Biogeography, 30, 847–877 850 R. G. Davies et al. along the humification gradient of organic matter decomposition (Donovan et al., 2001).”
- Carbon mineralization by termites in tropical forests, with emphasis on fungus combs (2005, background): “Termites decompose a wide range of plant material, for example fresh litter, dead wood, and soil organic matter (Sleaford et al. 1996; Donovan et al. 2001), and are accordingly divided into two major feeding groups, wood- and/or litter-feeders, which comprise fungus growers and non-fungus growers,…”
- Termite assemblage collapse along a land-use intensification gradient in lowland central Sumatra, Indonesia (2003, methodology): “The groupings reflected feeding preferences along a humification gradient of the dietary substrate, and correlated with the variations in the amount of plant tissue fragments and silica in the gut ( Donovan, Eggleton & Bignell 2001a ).”
- Global Biogeography of Termites: A Compilation of Sources (2010, background): “The groupings reflect feeding preferences along the humification gradient of the dietary substrates used by termites, and correlate broadly with the variations in the amount of plant tissue fragments (from organic detritus) and silica (from the parent soil) in the gut (Donovan et al. 2001).”
- Quaternary rainforest refugia in south‐east Asia: using termites (Isoptera) as indicators (2002, methodology): “Termites were placed into one of four feeding groups according to worker morphological characters, i.e. shape of pronotum, mandible and enteric valve characters (Donovan et al., 2001a).”
- Soil fauna and soil functions: a jigsaw puzzle (2014, background): “Some years later, Donovan et al. (2001) matched the anatomical aspects of the workers with their gut content analyses and defined four feeding groups distributed along a humification gradient: (i) feeding on wood, litter and grass (only in non-Termitidae), (ii) feeding wood, litter and grass (only…”
- Economic and ecological importance of termites: A global review (2018, neutral): “…et al. 2013b; Oguwike et al. 2013; https://nature. berkeley.edu/upmc/documents/UN_termite.pdf), approximately 2,700 (Rouland-Lefevre 2011), approximately 2,750 (Donovan et al. 2001), more than 2,800 (Verma et al. 2009), 2,933 (Krishna et al. 2013 or between 2,300 and 3,000 (Engel et al. 2009).”
- Use of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in insect trophic ecology (2015, neutral): “Based on field observations, mandible morphology and gut content, previous studies have classified termites into wood-feeders, soil-feeders, soil–wood-interface feeders or lichen feeders (Bignell & Eggleton 2000; Donovan et al. 2001).”
- An Introduction to Termites: Biology, Taxonomy and Functional Morphology (2010, background): “The fungus comb of the Macrotermitinae may well be homologous with the carton nests of Coptotermes, with the carton material being used as food for the mutualistic fungus (Donovan et al. 2001).”
- Functional structure of ant and termite assemblages in old growth forest, logged forest and oil palm plantation in Malaysian Borneo (2014, methodology): “ences (position along the humification gradient) and associated morphological (mandibular and gut structural) characters (Donovan et al. 2001).”
- Feeding ecology and phylogenetic structure of a complex neotropical termite assemblage, revealed by nitrogen stable isotope ratios (2011, methodology): “(ii) Termite species have also been classified into four groups (I–IV, representative of stages of organic decomposition from sound wood to soil organic matter) according to the materials they consume, as determined by gut content analysis (Donovan et al., 2001).”