Linking the abundance of aspen with soil faunal communities and rates of belowground processes within single stands of mixed aspen-black spruce

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-28

  Laganière, Jérôme ^a   Paré, David ^b   Bradley, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Boreal stands; Decomposition rates; Nitrogen mineralization; Soil fauna; Trembling aspen

Indexed keywords

CARABIDAE; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; FORMICIDAE; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICIDAE; PICEA; PICEA MARIANA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 57549112251     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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