Molecular identification of detritivorous soil invertebrates from their faecal pellets

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1263-1267

  Seeber, Julia ^a   Rief, Alexander ^a   Seeber, Gilg U H ^a   Meyer, Erwin ^a   Traugott, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biodiversity inventories; Diagnostic PCR; Diplopoda; Humus formation; Mixture model; Soil fauna; Soil formation

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSERS; DETECTION RATES; DETRITIVOROUS; DNA FRAGMENT; FAECAL PELLET; FAECAL SAMPLES; FAUNAL COMMUNITIES; HUMUS FORMATION; MIXTURE MODEL; MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR PROFILING; NEW APPROACHES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL FORMATIONS; SOIL INVERTEBRATES; SOIL LAYER; STOPPING RULE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA; GENES; MIXTURES; PELLETIZING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOILS; WEATHERING;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DECOMPOSITION; DETECTION METHOD; DETRITIVORY; FECAL PELLET; HUMUS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PASTURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES INVENTORY;

EID: 77954817765     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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