Soil arthropods as indicators of water stress in Antarctic terrestrial habitats?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1718-1730

  Convey, Peter ^a   Block, William ^a   Peat, Helen J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acari; Body water content; Climate trends; Collembola; Diptera; Seasonal variation; Soil arthropods

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GLOBAL CHANGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL FAUNA; WATER CONTENT; WATER STRESS;

ANTARCTICA; SIGNY ISLAND; SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; COLLEMBOLA; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MESOSTIGMATA; ORIBATIDA; PROSTIGMATA;

EID: 0347093162     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00691.x     Document Type: Article

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