Carbon and nutrient dynamics in decomposing pine needle litter in relation to fungal and faunal abundances

Pedobiologia

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 171-184

  Hasegawa, Motohiro ^a   Takeda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon and nutrient dynamics; Collembola; Cryptostigmata; Decomposition; Fungal abundance; Soil arthropods

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CARBON; CARBON CYCLING; COLLEMBOLA; DECOMPOSITION; FUNGI; HUMUS; LITTER; NEEDLE LITTER; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PINE; PINE NEEDLE;

COLLEMBOLA; CRYPTOSTIGMATA; PINUS;

EID: 0029769773     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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