Soil mosture and temperature interact to affect growth, survivorship, fecundity, and fitness in the earthworm Eisenia fetida

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Physiology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 319-326

  Presley, M Lance ^a   McElroy, Tom C ^a   Diehl, Walter J ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

earthworm; Eisenia fetida; fecundity; fitness; growth; life history; soil moisture; survivorship; temperature

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EARTHWORM; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EISENIA FETIDA;

EID: 0030222325     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(96)00017-5     Document Type: Article

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