Low-diversity antarctic soil nematode communities: Distribution and response to disturbance

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 363-369

  Freckman, Diana W ^a   Virginia, Ross A ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic soil system, vulnerability to disturbance; Disturbance and soil biodiversity; Dry Valley region, Antarctica; Field experiment; Food web, Antarctic; Nematode biodiversity; Nematodes and desert soil properties; Soil biodiversity and disturbance; Soil food web; Soil invertebrates in deserts; Species abundance vs. soil moisture, C, and N

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; HUMAN IMPACT; SOIL FAUNA;

ANTARCTICA, DRY VALLEY;

NEMATODA;

EID: 0030616880     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0363:LDASNC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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