Dependence of diverse consumers on detritus in a tropical rain forest food web as revealed by radiocarbon analysis

Agriculture & Biology

• carbon radioisotopes 100%
• detritus 82%
• tropical rain forests 81%
• food webs 77%
• detritivores 52%
• energy flow 40%
• predators 36%
• diet 35%
• Formicidae 35%
• Isoptera 31%
• soil food webs 29%
• Chiroptera 19%
• herbivores 16%
• age of soil 16%
• humification 14%
• Scandentia 14%
• nectar feeding 13%
• Lycosidae 13%
• primary productivity 11%
• nitrogen 11%
• trophic levels 11%
• isotopes 10%
• wasps 10%
• butterflies 10%
• bees 9%
• organic matter 8%
• invertebrates 8%
• vertebrates 7%
• birds 6%
• organisms 5%
• soil 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• tropical rain forest 90%
• detritus 71%
• food web 65%
• diet 53%
• ant 41%
• predator 37%
• termite 34%
• material flow 31%
• energy flow 30%
• bat 20%
• generalist 20%
• analysis 18%
• herbivore 18%
• dead organic matter 13%
• nectar 13%
• wasp 12%
• humification 10%
• bee 10%
• spider 10%
• butterfly 10%
• nitrogen isotope 10%
• trophic level 8%
• hunting 8%
• litter 8%
• primary production 8%
• vertebrate 7%
• invertebrate 7%
• soil 7%
• bird 7%
• young 6%
• organism 5%
• food 5%
• nitrogen 5%
• resource 4%