How allometric scaling relates to soil abiotics

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 529-536

  Mulder, Christian ^a   Vonk, J Arie ^a,b   Den Hollander, Henri A ^a   Hendriks, A Jan ^a   Breure, Anton M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DETRITIVORY; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FOOD WEB; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL ECOSYSTEM;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 79953007665     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.18869.x     Document Type: Article

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