Soil biology of tropical rain forests;Bodenbiologie tropischer regenwälder

Geographische Rundschau

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 24-31

  Beck, Ludwig ^a   Höfer, Hubert ^a   Martius, Christopher ^a   Römbke, Jörg ^b   Verhaagh, Manfred ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b ECT OEKOTOXIKOLOGIE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COCKROACH; DECOMPOSITION; EARTHWORM; RAINFOREST; SOIL BIOLOGY; TERMITE; TROPICS;

BLATTODEA; DICTYOPTERA; DIPLOPODA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; ISOPTERA; OLIGOCHAETA;

EID: 0031431011     PISSN: 00167460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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