The enigma of soil animal species diversity revisited: The role of small-scale heterogeneity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Nielsen, Uffe N ^a,b   Osler, Graham H R ^a   Campbell, Colin D ^a,c   Neilson, Roy ^a   Burslem, David F R P ^b   van der Wal, René ^b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; COLLEMBOLAN; FUNGUS; MESOSTIGMATID MITE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MITE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ORIBATID MITE; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; SOIL;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEMATODA; ORIBATIDA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; SOIL;

EID: 77955362455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011567     Document Type: Article

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