Tropical nematode diversity: Vertical stratification of nematode communities in a Costa Rican humid lowland rainforest

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 985-996

  Powers, T O ^a   Neher, D A ^b   Mullin, P ^a   Esquivel, A ^c   Giblin Davis, R M ^d   Kanzaki, N ^d   Stock, S P ^e   Mora, M M ^f   Uribe Lorio, L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; DNA barcode; La Selva Biological Research Station; Neotropical forests; Soil invertebrates

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COSTA RICA; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEMATODE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COSTA RICA; ISOPTERA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEMATODA; PARASITES; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 60549115308     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.04075.x     Document Type: Article

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