Why should we care about soil fauna?;Por que devemos nos importar com a fauna do solo?

Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 835-842

  Anderson, Jonathan Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biological preservation; Ecosystem processes; Functions of soil fauna; Scales

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPTERA;

EID: 77349111507     PISSN: 0100204X     EISSN: 16783921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2009000800006     Document Type: Article

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