Interactions between above- and belowground biota: Importance for small-scale vegetation mosaics in a grassland ecosystem

Oikos

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 582-598

  Blomqvist, M M ^a,b   Olff, H ^a   Blaauw, M B ^a   Bongers, T ^a   Van Der Putten, W H ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; GRASSLAND; HABITAT MOSAIC; HERBIVORY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CAREX ARENARIA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; FABRICIOLA; FABRICIOLA RUBRA; FESTUCA RUBRA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; LASIUS FLAVUS; MYCORRHIZAE; NEMATODA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033772079     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.900316.x     Document Type: Article

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