Trophic fractionation (Δ15N) in Collembola depends on nutritional status: A laboratory experiment and mini-review

Pedobiologia

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 101-109

  Semenina, Eugenia E ^a   Tiunov, Alexei V ^a  

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

Author keywords

C:N ratio; Detrital food webs; Fungi; Fungivores; Nitrogen; Soil communities; Stable isotopes; Starvation; Trophic shift

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST SOIL; FRACTIONATION; FUNGUS; INSECT; LITERATURE REVIEW; NICHE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SOIL FAUNA; TROPHIC STATUS;

ANIMALIA; COLLEMBOLA; ENTOMOBRYIDAE; FUNGI; ISOTOMIDAE; ONYCHIURIDAE;

EID: 79551686139     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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