Soil processes are not influenced by the functional complexity of soil decomposer food webs under disturbance

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1009-1020

  Liiri, Mira ^a   Setälä, Heikki ^b   Haimi, Jari ^a   Pennanen, Taina ^c   Fritze, Hannu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Drought; Ecosystem function; Soil fauna; Soil microbial community; Wood ash

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; LYSIMETER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL FAUNA;

FRAXINUS; NEMATODA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 0036304915     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0717(02)00034-2     Document Type: Article

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