Effects of seasonal and diurnal temperature fluctuations on population dynamics of two epigeic earthworm species in forest soil

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 559-570

  Uvarov, Alexei V ^a   Tiunov, Alexei V ^a   Scheu, Stefan ^b  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendrobaena octaedra; Diurnal fluctuations; Earthworms; Lumbricus rubellus; Overwintering; Seasonal fluctuations; Temperature

Indexed keywords

DENDROBAENA OCTAEDRA; DIURNAL FLUCTUATIONS; EARTHWORMS; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; OVERWINTERING; SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS;

DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOILS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

DECIDUOUS FOREST; EARTHWORM; FOREST SOIL; GLOBAL WARMING; MATURATION; MICROCOSM; MORTALITY; OVERWINTERING; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CLIMATES; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTATION; FORESTRY; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

DENDROBAENA OCTAEDRA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS;

EID: 78751571090     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.11.023     Document Type: Article

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