Into darkness: Unravelling the structure of soil food webs

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1153-1156

  Brose, Ulrich ^a   Scheu, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84927782135     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01768     Document Type: Article

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