Role of soil organisms in the maintenance of species-rich seminatural grasslands through mowing

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 78-88

  Ilmarinen, Katja ^a   Mikola, Juha ^a,b   Nissinen, Kari ^a   Vestberg, Mauritz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c PLANT PRODUCTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Defoliation grassland restoration; Nitrogen; Soil carbon; Soil decomposer organisms; Soil food web; Soil nematodes

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOTA; DEFOLIATION; MOWING; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL CARBON; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; NEMATODA;

EID: 58149496627     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00341.x     Document Type: Article

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