New indices for quantifying the resistance and resilience of soil biota to exogenous disturbances

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1907-1912

  Orwin, K H ^a,b   Wardle, D A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disturbance and perturbation; Resistance and resilience index; Soil stability

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; SOIL PROPERTIES; SOIL SYSTEMS;

BIOMASS; DATA REDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; MICROBIOLOGY; STABILIZATION;

SOILS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DISTURBANCE; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL ECOSYSTEM;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 4544283176     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.04.036     Document Type: Article

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