Soil arthropods beneficially rather than detrimentally impact plant performance in experimental grassland systems of different diversity

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1418-1424

  Eisenhauer, Nico ^a   Sabais, Alexander C W ^b   Schonert, Felix ^b   Scheu, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antagonistic interactions; Belowground herbivory; Chlorpyrifos; Collembola; Facilitation; Grassland; Plant functional group identity; Positive interactions; The Jena Experiment

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISTIC INTERACTIONS; CHLORPYRIFOS; COLLEMBOLA; HERBIVORY; JENA EXPERIMENT; PLANT FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; POSITIVE INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; INSECTICIDES; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ARTHROPOD; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; DETRITIVORY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; INSECTICIDE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CENTAUREA; COLLEMBOLA; ENTOMOBRYIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYPOGASTRURIDAE; ISOTOMIDAE; LOLIUM PERENNE; ORIBATIDA; SMINTHURIDAE;

EID: 77955177122     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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