Earthworm assemblages in an ecotone between forest and arable field and their relations with soil properties;Comunidades de minhocas em um ecótono entre ? oresta e campo arável e suas relações com as propriedades do solo

Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 922-927

  Zeithaml, Josef ^a   Pižl, Václav ^b   Sklenička, Petr ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Edge effect; Landscape mosaic; Lumbricidae

Indexed keywords

LUMBRICIDAE;

EID: 77349099258     PISSN: 0100204X     EISSN: 16783921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2009000800018     Document Type: Article

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