Diminishing effects of ant mounds on soil heterogeneity across a chronosequence of prairie restoration sites

Pedobiologia

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 359-366

  Lane, Diana R ^a,b   BassiriRad, Hormoz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant mounds; Grassland; Nitrogen cycling; Restoration; Soil heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ANT; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEITY; NITROGEN CYCLE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL PROPERTY;

MIDWEST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CLAVIGER; FORMICA MONTANA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 21744460020     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2005.04.003     Document Type: Article

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