Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in soil

Ambio

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 563-570

  Brussaard, Lijbert ^a,r   Behan Pelletier, Val M ^a,q   Bignell, David E ^a,p   Brown, Valerie K ^a,o   Didden, Wim ^a,n   Folgarait, Patricia ^a,m   Fragoso, Carlos ^a,l   Freckman, Diana Wall ^a,k   Gupta, Vadakattu V S R ^a,j   Hattori'S, Tsutomu ^a,i   Hawksworth, David L ^a,h   Klopatek, Carole ^a,g   Lavelle, Patrick ^a,f   Malloch, David W ^a   Rusek, Josef ^a,e   Söderström, Bengt ^a,d   Tiedje, James M ^a,c   Virginia, Ross A ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Intl Institute of Entomology   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^g INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^h Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

ⁱ CRC for Soil and Land Management   (Australia)

^j Attic Laboratory   (Japan)

^k CABI   (United Kingdom)

^l ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^o INSTITUTE OF SOIL BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^p LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^q MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIODIVSERITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; ECOSYSTEM PROCESS; SOIL; SOIL BIOLOGY;

EID: 0031474907     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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61. Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thank the members of the soil domain editorial committee: Jesef Rusek, Jim Tiedje, Vadakattu Gupta and David Bignell.