Vascular plant 15N natural abundance in heath and forest tundra ecosystems is closely correlated with presence and type of mycorrhizal fungi in roots

Oecologia

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 406-418

  Michelsen, Anders ^a   Quarmby, Chris ^b   Sleep, Darren ^b   Jonasson, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

15N of vascular plants, mosses, lichens and fungi; Arctic and alpine ecosystems; Plant nitrogen uptake; Soil inorganic, organic and microbial nitrogen; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; MYCORRHIZA; NITROGEN-15; TUNDRA; VASCULAR PLANT;

EID: 0031844125     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050535     Document Type: Article

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