Silica and testate amoebae in a soil under pine-oak forest

Geoderma

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 29-35

  Aoki, Yoshiyuki ^a   Hoshino, Mitsuo ^a   Matsubara, Teruo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biosilicification; Pine oak forest soil; Terrestrial silica cycle; Testate amoebae

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SILICA; SOILS;

BIOSILICIFICATION; PINE-OAK FOREST SOIL; TERRESTRIAL SILICA CYCLE; TESTATE AMOEBAE;

PROTOZOA;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST SOIL; PROTOZOAN; REPRODUCTION; SILICA; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

FORESTS; PINUS; PROTOZOA; QUERCUS; SILICA; SOIL;

EMBRYOPHYTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 34748911686     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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