Effects of environmental warming and drought on size-structured soil food webs

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1224-1233

  Lang, Birgit ^a   Rall, Björn C ^a   Scheu, Stefan ^a   Brose, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; DROUGHT; FOOD WEB; FUNGUS; INVERTEBRATE; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE; WARMING;

ACARI; CHILOPODA; COLLEMBOLA; FUNGI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84924580332     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00894.x     Document Type: Article

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