Potential drivers of spatial structure of leaf-litter food webs in south-western European beech forests

Pedobiologia

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 311-319

  Melguizo Ruiz, Nereida ^a,b   Verdeny Vilalta, Oriol ^a   Arnedo, Miquel A ^c   Moya Laraño, Jordi ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Feeding guilds; Horizontal distribution; Secondary productivity; Soil fauna; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOOD WEB; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; GUILD; HETEROGENEITY; LEAF LITTER; MICROCLIMATE; NATIONAL PARK; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; SOIL FAUNA; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84869090732     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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