Do burned areas recover from inside? An experiment with soil fauna in a heterogeneous landscape

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2012, Pages 73-86

  Gongalsky, Konstantin B ^a   Malmström, Anna ^b   Zaitsev, Andrey S ^a   Shakhab, Svetlana V ^a   Bengtsson, Jan ^b   Persson, Tryggve ^b  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Collembola; Oribatida; Recovery; Soil macrofauna; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANIMALIA; COLLEMBOLA; ORIBATIDA; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 84860549245     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2012.03.017     Document Type: Article

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