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3) http://www.biology.duke.edu/cibl/exercises/dirty_decomposers.htm--> accessed, 10.18.03...pp.1-2..."Dirty Decomposers"

4) http://fibre.utu.fi/projects/224.html--> accessed, 10.18.03...pp. 1-2...by: Docent Heikki Setala, University of Jyvaskyla, Department of Biology and Environmental Science..."Habitat Fragmentation and Performance of Decomposer Communities-Linking the Mechanisms Affecting Diversity of Soil Decomposer Organisms to Tree Growth"

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6) http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF1/183.html
7) http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF15/1562.html
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10) http://www.aksta.org/trivia_dec00.html
11) http://www.uidaho.edu/e-journal/pan_eco/alaskaplan.html

"Twenty percent of plant growth is eaten by mammals (there are few plant-eating
insects). About 80% of the annual tissue growth returns to the soil when plants
or parts die. The material is eaten slowly by microorganisms and fungi, which
are fed on by mites, larvae, springtails, and enchytraed worms, and these by
birds."

12) http://www.uaf.edu/civileng/enveng/White.html

voles eat fungi!

13) http://www.geography.uc.edu/~weisner/
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15) http://www.unom.ac.in/envis/AbstractI/dbasefiles-abscopy/fractions.html
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1)  Reynolds, James F. and John D. Tenhunen. Landscape Function and Disturbance in Arctic Tundra. Ecological Studies Volume 120. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1996. Germany.

2)  Marquiss, Mick and Sarah J. Woodin. Ecology of Artic Environments. 1997, the British Ecological Society--> published for them by Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, England....

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