Trophic relationships in the soil microfood-web: predicting the responses to a changing global environment

Global Change Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 713-727

  Wardle, David A ^a   Verhoef, Herman A ^b   Clarholm, Marianne ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL CHANGE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0032418011     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.1998.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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