Litter elemental stoichiometry and biomass densities of forest soil invertebrates

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1212-1223

  Ott, David ^a   Digel, Christoph ^a   Klarner, Bernhard ^a   Maraun, Mark ^a   Pollierer, Melanie ^a   Rall, Björn C ^a   Scheu, Stefan ^a   Seelig, Gesine ^a   Brose, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; BODY MASS; FOREST SOIL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVERTEBRATE; LITTER; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL FAUNA; STOICHIOMETRY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

GERMANY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 85027917485     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01670     Document Type: Article

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