Coordination of aboveground and belowground responses to local-scale soil fertility differences between two contrasting Jamaican rain forest types

Oikos

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 285-297

  Wardle, David A ^a   Bellingham, Peter J ^b   Kardol, Paul ^a   Giesler, Reiner ^c   Tanner, Edmund V J ^d  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; NEMATODA;

EID: 84923553604     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01584     Document Type: Article

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