title: Termites and the turnover of dead wood in an arid tropical environment.
abstract: The standing crop of woody litter (317 g m-2) and its rate of production (30.8 g m-2a-1) and disappearance (27.8 g m-2a-1) were measured in Tsavo National Park, Kenya, at a site with a mean rainfall of 352 mm a-1. Dead wood took about 11 years to disappear completely. Almost all of this wood is removed by termites, 90% by the fungus-cultivating subfamily Macrotermitinae.
authors.affiliation: Animal Ecology Research Group, Zoology Department, South Parks Road, Oxford, England.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Buxton