Soil food webs and ecosystem processes: Decomposition in donor-control and Lotka-Volterra systems

American Naturalist

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 125-148

  Zheng, David W ^a   Bengtsson, Jan ^a   Ågren, Göran I ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DYNAMICS; DECOMPOSITION; FOOD WEB; LOTKA-VOLTERRA SYSTEM; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0030619650     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/285982     Document Type: Article

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