How soil food webs make plants grow

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 418-420

  Wardle, D A ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHWORM; ECOSYSTEM; FAUNA; FUNGUS; MITE; NEMATODE; NOTE; PLANT GROWTH; PROTOZOON; SOIL BACTERIUM; SOIL MICROFLORA;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032858206     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01640-7     Document Type: Short Survey

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