Early-stage impacts of sika deer on structure and function of the soil microbial food webs in a temperate forest: A large-scale experiment

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 391-399

  Niwa, Shigeru ^a   Mariani, Lucero ^a   Kaneko, Nobuhiro ^a   Okada, Hiroaki ^b   Sakamoto, Kazunori ^c  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deer browsing; Dwarf bamboo; Mammalian herbivore; Nitrogen mineralization; Soil microorganism; Soil nematode

Indexed keywords

DEER BROWSING; DWARF BAMBOO; MAMMALIAN HERBIVORES; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NEMATODE;

ASTATINE; BAMBOO; ECOLOGY; ENCLOSURES; MAMMALS; MINERALOGY; NITROGEN; REFORESTATION; VEGETATION;

SOILS;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIUM; BAMBOO; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DECOMPOSITION; DEER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD WEB; FOREST SOIL; HERBIVORY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; NEMATODE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

JAPAN;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS NIPPON; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; SASA; SASA NIPPONICA;

EID: 78651236778     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.10.024     Document Type: Article

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