Concordance between plant species, oribatid mites and soil in a Mediterranean stone pine forest

Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 61-69

  Bonari, Gianmaria ^a   Migliorini, Massimo ^a   Landi, Marco ^a   Protano, Giuseppe ^a   Fanciulli, Pietro Paolo ^a   Angiolini, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coastal areas; Community composition; Congruence; Oribatid mites; Pinus pinea; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; MITE; NATURE RESERVE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ACARI; ORIBATIDA; PINUS CEMBROIDES; PINUS PINEA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84997108040     PISSN: 18728855     EISSN: 18728847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11829-016-9466-4     Document Type: Article

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