Habitat quality, conspecific density, and habitat pre-use affect the dispersal behaviour of two earthworm species, Aporrectodea icterica and Dendrobaena veneta, in a mesocosm experiment

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 203-209

  Mathieu, Jérôme ^a   Barot, Sébastien ^a   Blouin, Manuel ^b   Caro, Gael ^a   Decaëns, Thibaud ^c   Dubs, Florence ^a   Dupont, Lise ^b   Jouquet, Pascal ^d   Nai, Philippe ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^d UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Dispersal behaviour; Earthworm activity; Earthworm spatial distribution; Ecosystem engineering

Indexed keywords

BASIC MECHANISM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DENSITY DEPENDENT; EARTHWORM SPECIES; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEER; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENE FLOWS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HIGH CAPACITY; LIFE HISTORY; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MESOCOSMS; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES PERSISTENCE;

ECOSYSTEMS; SOILS;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ACTIVITY PATTERN; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSPECIFIC; DISPERSAL; EARTHWORM; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE FLOW; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITTER; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MESOCOSM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

APORRECTODEA ICTERICA; DENDROBAENA VENETA;

EID: 72149096257     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.10.018     Document Type: Article

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