Soil fauna diversity and ecosystem functions in grasslands

Grassland Productivity and Ecosystems Services

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 166-176

  Decaëns, Thibaud ^a   Lavelle, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

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