Response of Soil Dictyostelid Slime Molds to Agricultural Disturbance in a Tropical Environment

Tropical rain forests

“…None the less, they found that primary forests had a transitory seedbank. Cavender et al (1993) suggest that slime moulds have a similar succession following slash-and-bum agriculture as do soil and vegetation. They found that 14 years after slashand-bum agriculture the dictystelid cellural slime-mould community was the same size and diversity as undisturbed forest in the Central African Republic.…”