Responses of Collembola and Protura to tree girdling – some support for ectomycorrhizal feeding
Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi are very common in forest soils, but their role as a food resource for fungivorous soil animals is poorly known. We used two tree-girdling experiments in Picea abies forests and one experiment in a Pinus sylvestris forest, all in northern Sweden, to indirectly test if Col...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
2011-08-01
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Series: | Soil Organisms |
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Online Access: | https://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/251 |