Productivity and trophic-level biomasses in a microbial-based soil food web

Oikos

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 158-168

  Mikola, Juha ^a   Sctälä, Hcikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FOOD WEB; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL; TROPHIC LEVEL;

APHELENCHOIDES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; PRIONCHULUS PUNCTATUS;

EID: 2642611101     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546926     Document Type: Article

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