Ecology of plant and free-living nematodes in natural and agricultural soil

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 48, Issue , 2010, Pages 371-394

  Neher, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

biogeography; ecological succession; ecosystem stability; food web; niche partitioning; optimal foraging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEMATODE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NEMATODA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

NEMATODA;

EID: 77956108004     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-073009-114439     Document Type: Article

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