Plant community impacts on the structure of earthworm communities depend on season and change with time

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2430-2443

  Eisenhauer, Nico ^a   Milcu, Alexandru ^b   Sabais, Alexander C W ^c   Bessler, Holger ^d   Weigelt, Alexandra ^e   Engels, Christof ^d   Scheu, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anecic earthworms; Biodiversity loss; Endogeic earthworms; Key plant functional groups; Long term experiment; Plant functional group richness; Plant species richness; Seasonality; The Jena experiment

Indexed keywords

ANECIC EARTHWORMS; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; ENDOGEIC EARTHWORMS; KEY PLANT FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENT; PLANT FUNCTIONAL GROUP RICHNESS; PLANT SPECIES RICHNESS; SEASONALITY; THE JENA EXPERIMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDING; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

EXPERIMENTS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EARTHWORM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASS; GRASSLAND; LEGUME; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT RESIDUE; SEASONALITY; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL ECOSYSTEM;

POACEAE;

EID: 70350571163     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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