Linking biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of soils and sediments

Ambio

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 556-562

  Freckman, Diana Wall ^a,f   Henry Blackburn, T ^b   Brussaard, Lijbert ^c   Hutchings, Patricia ^d   Palmer, Margaret A ^e   Snelgrove, Paul V R ^a  

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

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; SEDIMENT; SOIL;

EID: 0031446094     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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38. Diana Freckman would like to acknowledge an anonymous donor for the support of the SCOPE Committee on Soil and Sediment Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, and the following for their efforts on behalf of this project: Paul G. Risser, Gina Adams, Lisa Adams, Lijbert Brussaard, Dan Bumbarger, Alan Covich, Susan Greenwood Etienne, Veronique Plocq-Fichelet, Gary King, Andy Parsons, Wren Wirth, and Gordon H. Orions.