Functional diversity amongst soil protozoa

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 229-237

  Coûteaux, Marie Madeleine ^a   Darbyshire, John F ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feeding guilds; Nutrient cycling; Organismal and functional diversity; Recovery from soil perturbations; Soil methods; Soil protozoa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141731605     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(98)00122-X     Document Type: Article

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