Interactions of juvenile Lumbricus terrestris with adults and their burrow systems in a two-dimensional microcosm;Interações de juvenis de Lumbricus terrestris com adultos e seus sistemas de galerias em um microcosmo bidimensional

Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 964-968

  Grigoropoulou, Niki ^a   Butt, Kevin R ^a   Lowe, Christopher N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anecic; Earthworm; Intraspecific interactions

Indexed keywords

LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 77349106659     PISSN: 0100204X     EISSN: 16783921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2009000800025     Document Type: Article

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