Association of vegetation and soil mite assemblages with isolated Scots pine trees on a Scottish wet heath

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 861-871

  Brooker, Rob W ^a,b   Osler, Graham H R ^a   Gollisch, Jörn ^c,d  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Habitat fragmentation; Heaths; Isolated trees; Mites; Plant community; Scotland; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HEATHLAND; MITE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ACARI; ORIBATIDA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 49849095860     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9242-7     Document Type: Article

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