Temporal responses of soil invertebrate communities to draught stress in two semiarid ecosystems of the Mediterranean

Israel Journal of Zoology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 331-348

  Legakis, Anastasios ^a   Adamopoulou, Chloe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATE; PHENOLOGY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL FAUNA;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ARANEAE; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; GASTROPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33747880808     PISSN: 00212210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/CRWK-A5YL-5MHB-7L9V     Document Type: Article

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