Litter manipulation and the soil arthropod community in a lowland tropical rainforest

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 5-12

  Ashford, O S ^a   Foster, W A ^a   Turner, B L ^b   Sayer, E J ^c   Sutcliffe, L ^a   Tanner, E V J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical parameters; Community composition; Litter manipulation; Neotropics; Physical parameters; Soil fauna

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CARBON; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; SOILS; TROPICS;

CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY IS; LITTER DEPTH; LITTER MANIPULATION; NEOTROPICS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SOIL ARTHROPODS; SOIL FAUNA; TOTAL CARBON;

PHOSPHORUS;

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECOMPOSITION; FAUNISTICS; LEAF LITTER; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RAINFOREST; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTATION; FOREST LITTER; PARAMETERS; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 84875598417     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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