Soil invertebrate fauna enhances grassland succession and diversity

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6933, 2003, Pages 711-713

  De Deyn, Gerlinde B ^a   Raaijmakers, Ciska E ^a   Zoomer, H Rik ^b   Berg, Matty P ^b   De Ruiter, Peter C ^c   Verhoef, Herman A ^b   Bezemer, T Martijn ^a   Van der Putten, Wim H ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; VEGETATION;

PLANT SPECIES;

ECOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY; PATHOGEN; SOIL FAUNA; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS; VEGETATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BEETLES; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; LARVA; NEMATODA; POACEAE; SOIL; SYMBIOSIS;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037452088     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01548     Document Type: Article

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