Correlation between earthworms and plant litter decomposition in a tropical wet forest of Puerto Rico

Pedobiologia

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 601-607

  Dechaine, Jennifer ^a   Ruan, Honghua ^b   Sanchez De Leon, Yaniria ^c   Zou, Xiaoming ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Earthworm abundance; Plant litter decomposition; Puerto Rico; Tropical wet forest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DECOMPOSITION; EARTHWORM; LITTER; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; OCEANIC REGIONS; PUERTO RICO; WORLD;

PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI; PONTOSCOLEX CORETHRURUS;

EID: 27744501155     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2005.07.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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