Assessing the relationship between fire and grazing on soil characteristics and mite communities in a semi-arid savanna of northern Australia

Pedobiologia

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 195-200

  Beyer, Stephen ^a   Kinnear, Adrianne ^b   Hutley, Lindsay B ^a   McGuinness, Keith ^a   Gibb, Karen ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire management; Grazing; Soil carbon; Soil mites; Tropical savannas

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GRASS; GRAZING; MITE; ORGANIC CARBON; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RANGELAND; SAVANNA; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NITROGEN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL REGION;

AUSTRALIA;

ACARI; STIGMAEIDAE;

EID: 79955481525     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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