Soil biodiversity and its implications for ecosystem functioning in a heterogeneous and variable environment

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 201-215

  Ekschmitt, K ^a   Griffiths, B S ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Communities; Ecosystem function; Food webs; Scale; Soil biota

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000760585     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(98)00119-X     Document Type: Article

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