Do shrews have an impact on soil invertebrates in Eurasian forests?

Ecoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 158-162

  Shvarts, Evgeny A ^a   Chernyshev, Nikolai V ^b   Popov, Igor Yu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Shilovo   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Forest litter; Red toothed shrews; Soil invertebrates; Temperate forests

Indexed keywords

ABIES; ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; LARIX; OXALIS MONTANA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; SORICIDAE; SORICINAE; UNGULATA; OXALIDACEAE; OXALIS ACETOSELLA; PINACEAE;

FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOREST; LITTER DECAY; SHREW; SOIL INVERTEBRATE; TAIGA;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, VALDAI;

EID: 0031474056     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1997.11682390     Document Type: Article

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