Soil animals alter plant litter diversity effects on decomposition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1519-1524

  Hättenschwiler, Stephan ^a,b   Gasser, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Soil fauna; Temperate forest ecosystem

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM; MACROFAUNA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLE; PLANT LITTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILIZERS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; SWITZERLAND; TREES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 13444274306     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0404977102     Document Type: Article

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