Soil environmental heterogeneity allows spatial co-occurrence of competitor earthworm species in a gallery forest of the Colombian 'Llanos'

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 915-926

  Jiménez, Juan José ^a   Decaëns, Thibaud ^b   Rossi, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; EARTHWORM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST SOIL; HETEROGENEITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE OVERLAP; PATCHINESS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL PROPERTY;

COLOMBIA; LLANOS;

EID: 84861480153     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20428.x     Document Type: Article

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