Influence of food quality, soil moisture and the earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus on growth and reproduction of the tropical earthworm Balanteodrilus pearsei

Pedobiologia

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-98

  Ortiz Ceballos, Angel I ^a   Fragoso, Carlos ^a   Equihua, Miguel ^a   Brown, George G ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acanthodrilini; Exotics; Glossoscolecidae; Mexico; Mucuna pruriens; Oligochaeta

Indexed keywords

EARTHWORM; FOOD QUALITY; GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; SOIL MOISTURE;

ANNELIDA; BALANTEODRILUS PEARSEI; GLOSSOSCOLECIDAE; MUCUNA; MUCUNA DEERINGIANA; MUCUNA PRURIENS; OLIGOCHAETA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI; PONTOSCOLEX CORETHRURUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 13444251315     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2004.08.006     Document Type: Article

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