Species-specific characteristics of trees can determine the litter macroinvertebrate community and decomposition process below their canopies

Plant and Soil

Volumn 307, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 83-97

  Negrete Yankelevich, Simoneta ^a,b   Fragoso, Carlos ^a   Newton, Adrian C ^c   Russell, Graham ^b   Heal, O William ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Above belowground relationship; Litter quality; Macrofauna; Nutrients; Single tree influence circles; Tropical mountain cloud forest

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CANOPY; CLOUD FOREST; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; LITTER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MONTANE FOREST; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

OREOPANAX XALAPENSIS; QUERCUS LAURINA;

EID: 43349099032     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-008-9585-5     Document Type: Article

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