caa a22 4500 388105496 CHVBK 20180307125336.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1742758400016568 doi S1742758400016568 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1742758400016568 Al-Houty Wasmia Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science University of Kuwait, P.O. Box 5969 Safat 13060, State of Kuwait, E-mail: biosc@kuniv.edu.kw Plant consumption by termites in the Kuwait desert ecosystem [Elektronische Daten] [Wasmia Al-Houty] The termite species Psammotermes hybosloma Desneux and Anacanthotermes vagans (Hagen) foraging in the desert ecosystem of Kuwait preferred to consume dried leaves of Tamarix aphylla (L.) and Rhanterium epapposium Oliv. over the other plant species tested. This preference varied with season. The termites consumed more food during summer than winter, with the highest consumption being recorded in September, the time of the year when the food plants dry up and can be readily cut into fragments which are carried by workers to the underground nest. These results indicate that the contribution of termites to the removal of desert vegetation is less than that of other soil fauna. Copyright © ICIPE 1999 ecosystem nationallicence desert nationallicence termite nationallicence plant consumption nationallicence Kuwait nationallicence écosystème nationallicence désert nationallicence termite nationallicence consommation végétale nationallicence Koweit nationallicence International Journal of Tropical Insect Science Cambridge University Press 19/1(1999-03), 37-42 1742-7584 19:1<37 1999 19 JTI https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742758400016568 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742758400016568 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Al-Houty Wasmia Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science University of Kuwait, P.O. Box 5969 Safat 13060, State of Kuwait, E-mail: biosc@kuniv.edu.kw NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Tropical Insect Science Cambridge University Press 19/1(1999-03), 37-42 1742-7584 19:1<37 1999 19 JTI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge