Earthworms as colonizers of natural and cultivated soil environments

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Eijsackers, H ^a,b,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Colonization; Cultivated soils; Dispersal; Earthworms; Succession

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80052901567     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2011.07.008     Document Type: Review

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