The diversity of soil communities, the 'poor man's tropical rainforest'

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-168

  Giller, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community ecology; Disturbance; Heterogeneity; Resource partitioning; Soil communities

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; SOIL COMMUNITY; SOIL FAUNA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029661470     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00055827     Document Type: Article

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