Soil fauna feeding activity in temperate grassland soils increases with legume and grass species richness

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2200-2207

  Birkhofer, Klaus ^a   Diekötter, Tim ^a   Boch, Steffen ^b   Fischer, Markus ^b   Müller, Jörg ^c   Socher, Stephanie ^b   Wolters, Volkmar ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Above belowground interactions; Bait lamina; Biodiversity ecosystem function research; Decomposition; Plant functional groups; Soil fauna; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

ABOVE-BELOWGROUND INTERACTIONS; BAIT LAMINA; PLANT FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; SOIL FAUNA; SPATIAL SCALE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDING; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BAIT; BIOMASS; DECOMPOSITION; EARTHWORM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASS; GRASSLAND; LEGUME; MICROCLIMATE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL TYPE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

GERMANY;

COLLEMBOLA;

EID: 80051670478     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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