Response of soil invertebrates to disturbance across three resource regions in North Carolina

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 152, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 283-298

  Barbercheck, M E ^a,c   Neher, D A ^a,b   Anas, O ^a   El Allaf, S M ^a   Weicht, T R ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biological indicators; Collembola; Enchytraeids; Environmental monitoring; Microarthropods; Mites; Soil; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS; COLLEMBOLA; ENCHYTRAEIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MICROARTHROPODS; MITES;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MONITORING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WETLANDS;

SOILS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER;

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MITE; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AGROECOSYSTEM; ANT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FAUNA; FOREST SOIL; INDICATOR ORGANISM; MITE; NONHUMAN; PH; PLANT LITTER; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SOIL INVERTEBRATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED STATES; WETLAND; WORM;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; NORTH CAROLINA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; COLLEMBOLA; DIPLURA (HEXAPODS); ENCHYTRAEIDAE; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; ISOTOMIDAE; ONYCHIURIDAE;

EID: 63749083422     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0315-5     Document Type: Article

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