Does plant species co-occurrence influence soil mite diversity?

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 625-633

  St John, Mark G ^a,c   Wall, Diana H ^a   Behan Pelletier, Valerie M ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acari; Biodiversity; Functional groups; Microarthropods; Microhabitat; Mites; Overyield; Resource heterogeneity; Resource quality; Soil ecosystem; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; INSECT; MITE; MONOCULTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MITE; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; KANSAS; MITES; PLANTS; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

KANSAS; KONZA PRAIRIE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; POACEAE;

EID: 33646149646     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-0380     Document Type: Article

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