Vascular plant litter input in subarctic peat bogs changes Collembola diets and decomposition patterns

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 106-115

  Krab, Eveline J ^a   Berg, Matty P ^a   Aerts, Rien ^a   van Logtestijn, Richard S P ^a   Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

13C; Climate change; Diet; Enrichment; Litter mixing; Peat moss; Shrubs; Soil invertebrates; Springtails; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

PEAT MOSS; SHRUBS; SOIL INVERTEBRATES; SPRINGTAILS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

BLAST ENRICHMENT; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; NUTRITION; PEAT; WETLANDS;

FORESTRY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; DIET; DOMINANCE; ENRICHMENT; LITTER; MICROCLIMATE; MOSS; PEATLAND; SHRUB; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FAUNA; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBARCTIC REGION; TURNOVER; VASCULAR PLANT;

CARBON; CLIMATES; DECAY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; NUTRITION; PEAT; SHRUBS; SPHAGNUM; WETLANDS;

BETULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; BRYOPHYTA; COLLEMBOLA; INVERTEBRATA; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM FUSCUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84877078552     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.03.032     Document Type: Article

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