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how termites influence soil properties and ecosystem processes under field conditions. Our results perhaps then should only be considered to show underlying mechanisms and the potential qualitative effects (increase, decrease, no change) of on soil properties. For example field soils receive other organic inputs, such as those from fine root turnover and exudation, which drive variation in soil properties in space and time. Field studies are required to discern the biological significance of our findings for the ecology of temperate forests in light of other inputs. In addition, we had no primary reproductives in our experiment and their absence, in microcosm studies