Soil food web structure during ecosystem development after land abandonment

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-34

  Holtkamp, Remko ^a   Kardol, Paul ^b   van der Wal, Annemieke ^b   Dekker, Stefan C ^a   van der Putten, Wim H ^b   de Ruiter, Peter C ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomass ratio; Energy channel; Secondary succession; Time lag; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 38749091333     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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