Life-history traits and population growth rate in the laboratory of the earthworm Dendrobaena octaedra cultured in copper-contaminated soil

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-56

  Bindesbøl, Anne Mette ^a,b   Bayley, Mark ^b   Damgaard, Christian ^a   Holmstrup, Martin ^a  

^a Department of Inland Fisheries   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Copper; Decomposition analysis; Ecotoxicology; Elasticity analysis; Population growth rate

Indexed keywords

DENDROBAENA OCTAEDRA;

EID: 33750812537     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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