Increasing the length of hyphae in a sandy soil increases the amount of water-stable aggregates

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 149-159

  Degens, B P ^a   Sparling, G P ^a   Abbott, L K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dry stable soil aggregation; Fungal hyphal length; Sandy soil; Saprophytic fungi; Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Water stable soil aggregation

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAE; FUNGI; LOLIUM; LOLIUM RIGIDUM; SCUTELLOSPORA CALOSPORA;

EID: 0000227575     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0929-1393(95)00074-7     Document Type: Article

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