Abstract:Termites are dominant organisms of tropical ecosystems. Their success is partly due to the diversity of their feeding substrates, from dead plant tissues to mineralised soils. The Apicotermitinae is one of the richest subfamilies of soil-feeding termites, which are traditionally classified in feeding groups according to anatomical criteria, deemed to the reveal whether species feed on organic-rich layers (group III) or on mineralised soil (group IV). Previous studies based on δ 15 N isotopic values showed that… Show more
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