Positive responses of the meiofauna to leaf litter additions became significant at the later stages of the experiment,
i.e. total meiofauna on the 60th day (H5M.L.C) and nematodes on the 30th
(H5M5L.C) and 60th day (H5M.L.C) (Table 4; Fig. 3). No significantly
positive effects for copepods and polychaetes could be detected by the end of the
experiment.