A terrestrial micro-ecosystem for measuring effects of pollutants on isopod-mediated litter decomposition

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 188-189, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 507-516

  van Wensem, J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

decomposition; micro ecosystem; microflora; Porcellio scaber; respiration; soil fauna

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003188252     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00027818     Document Type: Article

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