Seasonal variation in the nematode communities associated with two halophytes in a desert ecosystem

Pedobiologia

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 63-74

  Liang, Wenju ^a,b   Mouratov, Stanislav ^a   Pinhasi Adiv, Yocheved ^a   Avigad, Pnina ^a   Steinberger, Yosef ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Desert ecosystem; Ecological indices; Halophytes; Nematode community; Trophic groups

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; HALOPHYTE; NEMATODE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL FAUNA;

ISRAEL;

ACROBELES; ANIMALIA; APHELENCHOIDES; CEPHALOBUS; HAMMADA SCOPARIA; NEMATODA; RHABDITIDAE; SCOPARIA; ZYGOPHYLLACEAE; ZYGOPHYLLUM; ZYGOPHYLLUM DUMOSUM;

EID: 0036118530     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0031-4056-00114     Document Type: Article

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