The soil fauna of an Alpine glacier foreland: Colonization and succession

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 242-250

  Kaufmann, Rüdiger ^a   Fuchs, Markus ^a   Gosterxeier, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOIL BIOTA; SUCCESSION;

ACARI; CARABIDAE; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; COLLEMBOLA; DIPTERA; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0036696822     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1552481     Document Type: Article

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