The impact of mound-building termites on surface soil properties in a secondary forest of Central Amazonia (original) (raw)

sions on study methodology, and J.M. Anderson and Armand van Wambeke on review of the manuscript. We thank Reginaldo Constantino (University of Brasilia) for his identification of the termite species. We thank Emanoel dos Santos Alencar, Edilza da Silva Rocha, Estevã o Oliveira dos Santos, and Maria de Rosá rio of Embrapa Amazonia Ocidental for their assistance in soil analyses, and Eleusa Barros, Orlando Ferreira Cruz Junior, and the personnel of the Laborató rio de Sementes for laboratory support at INPA. We thank IBAMA for the permission to collect termites.