Decomposition of mixed foliar litters from the four typical plantitions in upper reaches the of the Minjiang River was studied by using the litterbag method.
One of the few drawbacks to living out the boondocks is that public services, such as litter collection, are less available than they are closer to the city.
Filling a niche separate from its green cousins, Deroplatys trigonodera, a leaf-litter mantid, has evolved the look of a leaf decomposing on the tropical forest floor.
Loss of habitat is to blame, specifically, the lack of the pocket of air between snow and ground called the “subnivean space.” There lemmings winter and give birth to prodigious litters of young.