Using light stable isotopes to understand nutrient cycling in soils and how these isotopic techniques can be leveraged to investigate the ecology and biology of insects – A review

Hood-Nowotny, Rebecca

Using light stable isotopes to understand nutrient cycling in soils and how these isotopic techniques can be leveraged to investigate the ecology and biology of insects – A review

Die Bodenkultur: Journal of Land Management, Food and Environment

Volume 68 (2017): Issue 4 (December 2017)

By:

Rebecca Hood-Nowotny

Open Access

|Mar 2018

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