STUDIES ON NEMATODES OF DUNE SANDS Thesis
- Author
- G.W. Yeates
- Year
- 1968
- Publisher / Organisation
- University of Canterbury
- Pages
- 101
- Keywords
- Himatangi, nematodes
- Summary
- Although nematodes abound in soils little has been discovered about their role in the biology of soils. Dune sands were selected for this study since if this "relatively simple" habitat could be understood it would provide a starting point to an understanding of the vastly more complex biology of agricultural soils. It was thought that the nematode fauna in sand dunes would be depauperate, that the environmental conditions might be simple enough to be understandable, if necessary duplicable, and that their variation might explain variation in the nematode fauna.