Abundance, diversity and connectance of soil food web channels along environmental gradients in an agricultural landscape

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2374-2383

  Sánchez Moreno, Sara ^a   Ferris, Howard ^b   Young Mathews, Anna ^b   Culman, Steven W ^b   Jackson, Louise E ^b  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecosystem; Nematodes; Plants; PLFA; Soil properties; Trophic relationships

Indexed keywords

AGRO ECOSYSTEMS; NEMATODES; PLANTS; PLFA; SOIL PROPERTIES; TROPHIC RELATIONSHIPS;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BACTERIA; CROPS; ECOLOGY; FATTY ACIDS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); USER INTERFACES; WATER CONTENT; WATER RESOURCES;

SOILS;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BULK DENSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD WEB; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; ION EXCHANGE; IRRIGATION; NEMATODE; NITROGEN COMPOUND; PH; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOURCE USE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC INTERACTION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

NEMATODA;

EID: 80052538655     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.07.016     Document Type: Article

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