Indicative value of soil nematode food web indices and trophic group abundance in differentiating habitats with a gradient of anthropogenic impact

Environmental Bioindicators

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 146-160

  Briar, Shabeg S ^a   Jagdale, Ganpati B ^a   Cheng, Zhiqiang ^a   Hoy, Casey W ^a   Miller, Sally A ^a   Grewal, Parwinder S ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Muck soil; Nematode community; Soil food web

Indexed keywords

NEMATODA; POACEAE;

EID: 34848854493     PISSN: 15555275     EISSN: 15555267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15555270701590909     Document Type: Article

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