Factors influencing soil macrofaunal communities in post-pastoral successions of western France

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 361-367

  Decaens T ^a   Dutoit, T ^b   Alard, D ^b   Lavelle, P ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Chalk grasslands; Diversity; France; Post pastoral dynamics; Secondary successions; Soil macrofauna

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000772510     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(98)00090-0     Document Type: Article

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