Long-term trends in earthworm populations of cropped experimental watersheds in Ohio, USA

Pedobiologia

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 713-719

  Butt, Kevin R ^a   Shipitalo, Martin J ^b   Bohlen, Patrick J ^c   Edwards, William M ^b   Parmelee, Robert W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthworm populations; Experimental watersheds; Lumbricus terrestris; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

EARTHWORM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLING;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

ANNELIDA; APORRECTODEA; APORRECTODEA TRAPEZOIDES; APORRECTODEA TUBERCULATA; APORRECTODEA TURGIDA; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; OCTOLASION TYRTAEUM; OLIGOCHAETA; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 0033387546     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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