Soil ecosystem engineering by the train millipede Parafontaria laminata in a Japanese larch forest

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1840-1850

  Toyota, Ayu ^a   Kaneko, Nobuhiro ^a   Ito, Masamichi T ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diplopoda; Feeding shift; Litter decomposition; Soil carbon sequestration; Soil microbial biomass; Soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; SOIL MECHANICS;

DIPLOPODA; FEEDING SHIFT; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION; SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ARTHROPOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LARVA; POPULATION DENSITY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SWARMING;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

DIPLOPODA; LARIX; PARAFONTARIA LAMINATA; PSEUDOLARIX KAEMPFERI;

EID: 33745996627     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.12.015     Document Type: Article

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