Fatty acid patterns as biomarker for trophic interactions: Changes after dietary switch and starvation

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 490-494

  Haubert, Dominique ^a   Pollierer, Melanie M ^b   Scheu, Stefan ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collembola; Dietary routing; Fatty acid analysis; Food source; Food web

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS; CHAETOMIUM GLOBOSUM; COLLEMBOLA; DETECTION TIME; DIETARY ROUTING; EUROPAEA; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FEEDING STRATEGIES; FOOD SOURCES; FOOD WEBS; GUT CONTENTS; NEUTRAL LIPID; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SNAPSHOT METHOD; SOIL FOOD WEB; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STORAGE PERIODS; TROPHIC INTERACTIONS;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOMARKERS; ECOLOGY; FEEDING; NUTRITION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

FATTY ACIDS;

BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; CHRONOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DICOTYLEDON; DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FATTY ACID; FOOD WEB; FUNGUS; LIPID; METABOLISM; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER; STARVATION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHAETOMIUM; CHAETOMIUM GLOBOSUM; COLLEMBOLA; FUNGI; HETEROMURUS NITIDUS; MALVACEAE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TILIA EUROPAEA;

EID: 78751572828     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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