Intraspecific aggregation, 'probability niches' and the diversity of soil microarthropod assemblages

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 63-67

  O'Connell, Tadhg ^a   Bolger, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Diversity; Guild; Microarthropods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001770576     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(98)00055-9     Document Type: Article

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