Soil fauna and soil functions: a jigsaw puzzle

Terrestrial ecologists and soil modelers have traditionally portrayed the inhabitants of soil as a black box labeled as soil fauna or decomposers or detritivores assuming that they just merely recycle the deposited dead plant material. Soil is one of the most diverse habitats on Earth and contains o...

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Main Author: Maria J.I. Briones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fenvs.2014.00007/full