Carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide fluxes from soil as influenced by anecic and endogeic earthworms

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-33

  Speratti, Alicia B ^a   Whalen, Joann K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aporrectodea caliginosa; Denitrification; Earthworm microbial interactions; Lumbricus terrestris; Microcosm; Nitrification

Indexed keywords

APORRECTODEA CALIGINOSA; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 35548941909     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2007.08.009     Document Type: Article

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