Alister V. Spain

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1974

Active since

Affiliations

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation(Current)

James Cook University

The University of Western Australia

Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

Alister V. Spain is an author at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation specializing in engineering, biodiversity, and evolutionary biology.

Top concepts

EngineeringBiodiversityEvolutionary BiologySymbiosisEntomologyMicrobiologyBiogeochemistryBiologyMedicineMammalogy

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1974–2022

Publications

A Hierarchical Model for Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Application to Soils of the Humid Tropics

Patrick Lavelle, Éric Blanchart, A. Martin et al. · Biotropica · 1993 · 513 citations

Forest Soil, Biogeochemistry, Engineering +12

Ecosystem Engineers in a Self-organized Soil

Patrick Lavelle, Alister V. Spain, Manuel Blouin et al. · Soil Science · 2016 · 219 citations

Earthworms as vectors of viable propagules of mycorrhizal fungi

Paul Reddell, Alister V. Spain · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 1991 · 133 citations

Biology, Viable Propagules, Fungal Biology +4

Soil aggregation, ecosystem engineers and the C cycle

Patrick Lavelle, Alister V. Spain, Steven J. Fonte et al. · Acta Oecologica · 2020 · 108 citations · Full text

Carbon Sequestration, Biogeochemistry, Engineering +3

Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment

Patrick Lavelle, Jérôme Mathieu, Alister V. Spain et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2022 · 97 citations · Full text

Terrestrial Arthropod, Biodiversity, Soil Macroinvertebrates +10

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