Are soil mite assemblages structured by the identity of native and invasive alien grasses?

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1314-1324

  John, Mark G St ^a,b   Wall, Diana H ^a   Hunt, H William ^a  

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

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acari; Belowground animal assemblages; Biodiversity; Invasive alien grasses; Microarthropods; Mites; Soil communities; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

INVASIVE SPECIES; MITE; NATIVE SPECIES; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANDOMIZATION; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MITES; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

KANSAS; KONZA PRAIRIE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ORIBATIDA; POACEAE;

EID: 33646729638     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1314:ASMASB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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