Soil fauna and soil functions: A jigsaw puzzle

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 2, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Briones, María Jesús I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecosystem functioning; Feeding ecology; Functional classifications; Resilience; Soil organisms; Soil processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910056940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2014.00007     Document Type: Review

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