Changes in plant species richness induce functional shifts in soil nematode communities in experimental grassland

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Eisenhauer, Nico ^a   Migunova, Varvara D ^b   Ackermann, Michael ^c   Ruess, Liliane ^c   Scheu, Stefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b All Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine KI Skryabin and YR Kovalenko the Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD WEB; GRASSLAND; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PLANT NEMATODE INTERACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPRING; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; BIOTA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METAZOA; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; NEMATODA; POACEAE; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80052343973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024087     Document Type: Article

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