Earthworm communities in soils of Estonian wooded meadows

Baltic Forestry

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 111-118

  Ivask, Mari ^a   Kuu, Annely ^a   Truu, Marika ^b   Kutti, Sander ^a   Meriste, Mart ^a   Peda, Jane ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Diversity; Earthworms; Microbial community; Restoration; Wooded meadows

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922686694     PISSN: 13921355     EISSN: 20299230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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