Relationships between invertebrate communities, litter quality and soil attributes under different cacao agroforestry systems in the south of Bahia, Brazil

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 347-354

  Moço, Maria Kellen S ^a   Gama Rodrigues, Emanuela F ^a   Gama Rodrigues, Antonio Carlos ^a   Machado, Regina C R ^b   Baligar, Virupax C ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO NORTE FLUMINENSE DARCY RIBEIRO   (Brazil)

^b MARS Center of Cocoa Science   (Brazil)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental variables; Path analysis; Rain forest; Soil invertebrates; Structural community

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 78650174718     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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