Quantifying Beetle-Mediated Effects on Gas Fluxes from Dung Pats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Penttilä, Atte ^a   Slade, Eleanor M ^a,b   Simojoki, Asko ^a   Riutta, Terhi ^b   Minkkinen, Kari ^a   Roslin, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS TRANSPORT; GREENHOUSE GAS; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84881363710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071454     Document Type: Article

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