ABSTRACT
University of Ulm, Ecology and Morphology of Animals (Biology III), AlbertEinstein-Allee 11, D-7900 Ulm/Donau, Germany
ABSTRACT
In the most important invertebrate animals (Annelida, Arthropoda) of a virtually unpolluted spruce stand in southern Germany, the concentrations of 18 elements were determined by atomic-spectrometrical methods: Al, Ba, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, La, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni, P, Pb, V, Zn. In all species the highest concentrations were found for macronutrients; K, Na, Ca, Mg, and P represent between 2 and 11 % of invertebrate dry matter. The lowest concentrations were manifested for essential or potentially toxic trace metals such as Co, V, and La.
