Leaf litter breakdown in natural and plantation forests of the Lama forest reserve in Benin

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-124

  Attignon, Serge Eric ^a,b   Weibel, Daniel ^b   Lachat, Thibault ^b   Sinsin, Brice ^a   Nagel, Peter ^b   Peveling, Ralf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABOMEY CALAVI   (Benin)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lama forest reserve; Litter breakdown; Litter dwelling invertebrates; Natural forest; Plantation forests

Indexed keywords

AFZELIA; AFZELIA AFRICANA; CEIBA; CEIBA PENTANDRA; INVERTEBRATA; SENNA; SENNA SIAMEA; TECTONA GRANDIS;

EID: 5444272985     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2004.05.003     Document Type: Article

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