Palatability of Selected Alpine Plant Litters for the Decomposer Lumbricus rubellus (Lumbricidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Rief, Alexander ^a   Knapp, Brigitte A ^a   Seeber, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS;

ALPINE TUNDRA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD QUALITY; GRASS; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; LUZULA LUTEA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NARDUS STRICTA; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PLANT LITTER; POACEAE; RANUNCULACEAE; TROLLIUS EUROPEUS; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM GAULTHEROIDES; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; WEATHERING;

ANIMALS; CARBON; ERICACEAE; NITROGEN; OLIGOCHAETA; PHOSPHOROUS ACIDS; PLANTS; POACEAE; POLYPHENOLS; RANUNCULACEAE;

LUMBRICIDAE; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS;

EID: 84866484003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045345     Document Type: Article

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